…e Cantor or the Anderson Collection at Stanford University. Jan. 5 is the last day of Robert Frank in America at the Cantor. The exhibition of 130 photographs sheds new light on the making of influential photographer Robert Frank’s provocative book, The Americans. Frank traveled the nation between 1955 and 1956 for this project. His images document subjects such as Hollywood (seen both from within the studio and from the fans’ perspec…

…IS: ANTARCTICA, 2006 Fast forward almost two decades, Lita Albuquerque, drives us to realisation of timelessness and relevance of her first and the largest ephemeral artworks ever installed in opposing hemispheres of the Globe, making a case for a historic project worth reminiscing about. Her visual and conceptual language draws strong pertinence with the concurrent intersection of humanity and its awakening to the idea of collective consciousnes…

…nd craftsmanship. The exhibition – which features 11 works by Kathy Butterly, Kahlil Robert Irving, Simone Leigh and Brie Ruais – was postponed from spring 2020 and will be on view upon the museum’s reopening, hopefully in early 2021. A virtual tour of the show is available online now. “By sharing the work and voices of these contemporary artists, our visitors can engage with current issues while reflecting on work in the permanent collection,” s…

When the Anderson Collection at Stanford University opens to the public this Sunday, visitors will be rewarded with a breathtaking introduction to one of the world’s most important private collections. The long-anticipated institution, adjacent to the Cantor Arts Center, features a formidable cache of modern and contemporary art and certifies the Bay Area’s growing international stature as a destination for lovers and scholars of 20t…

…s of sound. And this focus, according to reports from previous installations of Cardiff’s “masterwork,” can move the listener to tears. The installation, organized by SFMOMA and on loan from local video and media art collectors, will occupy a historic space at Fort Mason Center with its ghostly voices. Each speaker projects the voice of one member of the Salisbury Cathedral Choir performing a 16th century choral composition Spem in Alium Nunquam…

…movement and experimentation with materials like cardboard and silk — juxtaposing the visual properties of hard and soft materials. By playing around with different media, Twist acquires a vocabulary of visual effects that he can incorporate into his performances. The stage, then, becomes Twist’s playground. Twist concluded his presentation by giving a live performance of his puppeteering. With Rothko’s “Pink and White over Red” as his backdrop,…

Arty Reason to Visit Palo Alto: The Anderson Collection Stanford University is now home to a prized assemblage of 20th Century American art thanks to generous Palo Alto collectors Harry and Mary Margaret Anderson and their daughter, Mary Patricia Anderson Pence. Doing the only thing a grateful beneficiary could do in the face of such an important endowment, which includes works by such blue chip artists as Jackson Pollock, Wayne Thiebaud, and El…

About twice a month, Mary Margaret Anderson pays a visit to the museum on the Stanford campus that bears her last name. Moo, as she is better known, usually chats with the staff before declaring, “I’m off to see my friends.” Those friends are the more than 100 works of art, including paintings and sculptures, that she and her husband, Harry (“Hunk”), along with their daughter, Mary Patricia (“Putter”) Anderson Pence, gave to the university sever…

…interior landscape from which all color has been drained. They are each very powerful paintings, but together – they are devastating. The Anderson Collection speaks to the clash between two different trends in art exhibition and museums. Collectors who have spent decades assembling their collections and have enjoyed living with the art in certain combinations, want to share that experience. To them the paintings are part of a narrative, perhaps…

…e, which sweeps you off your feet no matter your background in art or art history. None of this is academic. But the Anderson Collection feels inexhaustible. Every room is a new theme, including California Light and Space, Funk, Hard-Edge Painting and Post-Minimalism. You pity the tourists, who come with cameras and visit only once. They are overwhelmed (delightfully so), scrambling to decode every movement, to mingle with every painting. As a st…

…ge with students and the community,” Linetzky said. Lady Columbia John Gast’s 1872 painting American Progress is the namesake and cornerstone for the new works at the Anderson Collection, beginning with a cheeky larger-than-life fabric female figure floating above the museum lobby. In Gast’s painting, an illuminated angel-like figure in diaphanous white known as “Lady Columbia” hovers over an American landscape that includes Native Americans bein…

…nd the painting I wanted to see before leaving the Anderson Collection. I had seen Richard Diebenkorn’s “Girl on the Beach” on the museum’s website, and I was drawn to it because it reminded me of a painting I loved from the summer, Roger Kunzt’s “Morning Thoughts.” I actually never saw “Morning Thoughts” in real life, at least not yet. I had seen a performance of it at an arts festival in Laguna Beach over the summer. I had cried at that arts fe…

…l, however, subscribing to the common if dubious proposition that museum architecture must be boring to defer to the art inside. There’s a difference between deference and dullness. The best museum buildings heighten perceptual acuity. The Anderson Collection footprint is like a shallow bow tie, a shape that coyly repeats in specially designed, George Nelson-style gallery seating. The second-floor suite of galleries, ringed with clerestory…

…Finish: Armourcoat View all people & products —– Advertising —– Harry W. “Hunk” and Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson, who have art in every corner of their ranch house near San Francisco, including an Ed Ruscha over the fridge, wanted the public to have that kind of immediate relationship with these masterworks. When they decided to donate a significant portion of their collection, they worked out a deal with Stanford…