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Meet Manuel Neri’s Muses: ‘Assertion of the Figure’ highlights the models behind the sculpture

…bject for the male artist to objectify. Rather, she’s a collaborator. You feel each woman’s presence in the work, side by side with the man who shaped it. Neri and Nakamura (sometimes referred to as Makiko) met in Carrara, Italy. He established a studio there in order to access marble from those famous quarries. She was the model forĀ Makida III, a large, marble head with unseeing, absent or closed eyes. While her lips and nose are cle…

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Anderson Collection at Stanford marks fifth anniversary

…rams reveals that museum has taken full advantage of its placement on a university campus and the opportunity to interface with a variety of departments, many of which are not art-oriented. Several years ago, The Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics took over the entire museum, creating “soundscapes” that visitors could enjoy while viewing the art. “One of the exciting things we have as a museum here is to collabo…

Hostile Terrain 94
Exhibition

Hostile Terrain 94

Exhibition

Eamon Ore-Giron: Non Plus Ultra

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A New Museum for Stanfordā€”and a New Neighbor for Us!

On September 21, theĀ Anderson Collection buildingĀ opened at the Palo Alto campus of Stanford Universityā€”our frequent partner-in-crime when it comes to celebrating the West. Designed by the same team that created Stanfordā€™s stellar Bing Concert Hall, the structure housesĀ 121 works of modern and contemporary American art, all donated by Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson. Of course, weā€™re most excited about the pieces that have a Western flavor:…

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Top 10 art shows as rising rents force out S.F. artists

…knew too well. Carleton Watkins: The Stanford Albums:Ā The Stanford University LibrariesĀ presented to the public for the first time at theĀ Cantor Arts CenterĀ the full riches of albums they received decades ago in which the luckless but relentless Carleton Watkins recorded the prising open of the American West by alien forces both commercial and cultural. Lines on the Horizon: Native American Art From the Weisel Family Collection:Ā TheĀ de Young Mus…

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Anderson Collection a modern art trove not to be missed

…bert Irwinā€™s untitled disk is capturing peopleā€™s attention. Thereā€™s this shadow quality ā€” he was very interested in the transience of time and light. Hopefully you get lost in it a little bit.ā€ ā€œAgnes Martinā€™s (Untitled #21) is another work that I would hope people come and spend time with. There are just these subtleties to the painting, and the balance of the palette is really wonderful.ā€ ā€œDavid Parkā€™s ā€˜Four Womenā€™ has everything you could ask…

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Fashion statements: Nick Cave’s Soundsuits come to Stanford

…dsuits are formed from memories. The Chicago artist’s creations are part sculpture and ornament, armor and instrument and are often worn as costumes and performed in. The energetic vibration of each single, insignificant article is magnified by how Cave chooses to bind them together. Each found object is transformed through the combination of color, history, function and sound. They force a reaction based on the viewer’s personal hist…

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Getting it down on paper: A different aspect of the Anderson Collection on view

…rotect the fragile art on paper) sets a quiet mood and the small selection allows the visitor to linger and take in each work individually. Sometimes the connections are easily made. For example, Franz Kline’s “Untitled (Dancer at Islip)” uses the same bold, black, gestural strokes that can be seen in his paintings. Richard Diebenkorn’s carefully composed use of geometry and muted, cool colors relates directly to the evoca…

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Mary Margaret ā€˜Mooā€™ Anderson, modern art collector and benefactor, dead at 92

…y themselves as plain folk to befit their shared nickname ā€œHunk and Moo,ā€ but they were sophisticated and timely in their collecting of artworks that were often abstract and beyond comprehension. They were also generous in both loaning and donating pieces to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Five years ago, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University opened next to Cantor Arts Center, the main…

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Works by Pollock, de Kooning donated to Stanfordā€™s Anderson Collection

…fifth anniversary celebration, the Anderson exhibition space ā€” 16,000 feet on two floors ā€” has been reinstalled for the first time since its opening. This includes a curated exhibition by Jim Campbell, the San Francisco lighting artist known for his six-story installationĀ ā€œDay for Nightā€ at Salesforce Tower. For the Anderson show, Campbell built a new work titled ā€œRhythm Studiesā€ composed of nine LED panels. It hangs in the first-floor window an…

Stanford art museums, Frost Amphitheater begin to reopen