…ion: precise color of the gallery wall and exact placement of four spotlights. When properly displayed, the disk is otherworldly. It appears to be floating. The disk blends with its shadows, which in turn seem to take on substance and merge with the disk. Prolonged gazing can make a viewer feel that he or she is levitating along with the work. Advertisement One work in this series commands its own wall at the Anderson Collection at Stanford. A co…

…Anderson family, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and private collectors. Genre-crossing works Cave, born in Missouri and now based in Chicago, is the director of the graduate fashion program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is known for his Soundsuits, which are full-body-sized sculptures that are sometimes worn as costumes and performed in, and are made of everything from collected and repurposed buttons to human hair, b…

…Anderson family, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and private collectors. Genre-crossing works Cave, born in Missouri and now based in Chicago, is the director of the graduate fashion program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is known for his Soundsuits, which are full-body-sized sculptures that are sometimes worn as costumes and performed in, and are made of everything from collected and repurposed buttons to human hair, b…

…ttons, sequins, and human hair. Sometimes he puts dancers in the suits (Cave trained with Alvin Ailey) and calls it performance art. Whatever  you call it, it’s very cool stuff and very worth a visit to Stanford. Both the Anderson Collection and the Cantor are always free, so it’s one of our Cheap Thrills this week.   Sept 16 & 17: Angelica’s in Redwood City is a kind of throwback, a supper club where you can go for dinner and a show. Wi…

…tive work, with surrealist touches, set the foundations for his unique but disorienting exploration of identity. In “Cookin’ 1” (2002) small clouds scaled to suggest a distant vista shift into the foreground, caressing a woman with corn husk stockings and a pitted sweater of dried cactus wood, who stirs a pot alongside another woman. In “Cookin’ 2” (2002) the scene is generally the same, but the women have exchanged pale skin and yellow hair for…

…leased their collection will be on public display in a dedicated building on the Stanford campus. “I think in order to enjoy art, you have to share it,” remarked Moo Anderson to the  LA Times . Located adjacent to the university’s Cantor Arts Center, the Anderson Collection will be latest addition to Stanford’s arts district. Last year saw the opening of Bing Concert Hall and 2015 is the date set for a new art and art history building…

…features seven Soundsuits and two video installations in the first-floor galleries, as well as one suit that has invaded the permanent collection of abstract-expressionist-era work upstairs. For those new to Cave’s projects, the suits up close are surprising; they seem to ask questions and patiently wait for the viewer to answer. What kind of movements would you make if no one could see you? From the interior of the suits come the sounds th…

…rts are taken care of,” Cadden says. He adds that they have since received a number of gifts. A rendering of the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University (Photo: © Steven Holl Architects/ the Institute for Contemporary Art, VCU) At universities where the arts have always been a calling card, support has flowed more easily. Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond, Virginia, has had the country’s top ranked publ…

…Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye (1973). Elliot Gould, cigarette in lips, marches purposefully toward the camera in a crisp navy suit as waves crash behind him. Aimee Shapiro, the Anderson Collection’s director of programming and engagement, says Valladares’ pairings recontextualized these “heavy hitters” of abstraction for her. “In looking at the paintings next to some of the labels written by Carlos,” she says, “I have to say I saw the work in…

…s the family. Some are annotated by the Andersons or signed by authors or artists. The printed materials, housed in the Denning Family Resource Center at the museum, help fulfill the educational mission of the Anderson Collection and has become a vital library and teaching space within the museum. But for Moo, nothing compared to seeing artwork in person. “It’s good to study art in books, but something happens in the presence of the original – it…

…Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana. With historical research, Stanford student collaborations, large-scale installations, and images of sovereignty, Red Star asks viewers to grapple with the layered complexity of American history. On view on the first floor of the museum through Aug. 28, the exhibition is informed by Red Star’s cultural heritage and engagement with many forms of creative expression. She addresses the racism, displacement, a…

…e, which, for over two thousand years, has explained a fundamental part of reality that seems relatively obvious to us. The spillover effect of a body submerged in a fluid is so obvious it may go unnoticed or may appear unremarkable. Yet, when it comes to the history of American empire-building, Apsáalooke artist Wendy Red Star has made it her life’s work to revere the outlying spaces and those who have been forced to occupy them. When she…