…rstood art form. He explains that the intention of animating something — not just humanoid marionettes — makes a performance piece puppetry. Taking after the abstraction that defined American art in the 20th century, Twist strives to emulate pure color and pure shape in his work. He utilizes materials such as cloth, tinsel and paper to explore the concepts of form, shape and motion without anthropomorphizing his “puppets.” The American puppeteer…

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…

…ivate tour of the museum. The tour was put together by the local chapter of Art Table, a non-profit that usually organizes special events like this one in San Francisco and the East Bay. Peninsula Arts Coverage on KQED Different View of ‘Custer’s Last Stand’ in Red Horse’s Battle Drawings Quilts Help Stitch Together New Perception of East Palo Alto’s Cooley Landing Redwood City Sidewalk Stencil…

…Dove. In 1969, they made a switch from the Impressionists and Modernists to postwar American art. The timing was perfect. There wasn’t as much competition to drive up the prices and they went straight for the best in the New York school — Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, Clyfford Still, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. “Hunk had an ability to focus on things and listen to advice,” Be…

The Stanford Daily sat down with artist and writer Kiyan Williams ’13. One of their exhibits, “Reaching Towards Warmer Suns,” is currently being featured at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University from Jul. 29 to Dec. 5. Williams has also created numerous other works of art, such as “Pig Roast,” inspired by police violence toward Black people. They previously worked at Virginia Commonwealth University and served as a fellow with New Yor…