…Squares: Contemporary California Quilts Oakland Museum of California Sept. 12, 2015 – Feb. 21, 2016 OMCA starts the fall season with the work of five Bay Area female quilters, showing 20 quilts from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Seeking orderly patterns and demure fabrics in your textiles? This show is not for you. Working with full denim pant legs, velvet and glittery polyester, Angie Tobias, Arbie Williams, Mattie Pickett, Rosie Lee Tompk…

…dence there. And Hunk Anderson’s Cliff May-designed office complex will now be missing major artworks, but the Andersons are pleased 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 Stan…

…en Gustave Flaubert and the cross-dressing proto-feminist George Sand. Kimberly King and Michael Ray Wisely play the authors in this new production. It’s not really a romantic tale. Sand was 20 years older, and they never met. But director Joy Carlin told me audiences are loving it. “It seems to pack a wallop, it’s just people reading letters, but people seem to get very emotional over it.” Details here. Robert Hawkins entertains the Comedy Day…

…ere all spoken for as of Sunday morning, and the slots left open for walk-up visitors were gobbled up throughout the day. Cantor Arts Center is hosting two exhibitions related to the Anderson Collection. In celebration of the arrival of Pollock’s Lucifer on campus, Sympathy for the Devil: Satan, Sin and the Underworld explores the visual history of the devil and his realm over 500 years (through Dec. 1).All the trimmings surrounding the opening a…

…he said. It makes sense. I mean, wasn’t Lucifer the light bringer? The Andersons themselves also attended the reception, explaining that their gift was one that will keep on giving. Students for generations will take advantage of this assemblage of iconic modern pieces. Again, the open-air, naturally-lit environs drive home the idea, at least for me, that this is a collection accessible to anyone. There are no crazy, over-the-top experimen…

…ys. Anh-Minh Le is a Portola Valley freelancer. E-mail: travel@sfchronicle.com Museum highlights Jason Linetzky, the Anderson Collection’s founding director, recommends allotting about 90 minutes for a visit. Here are just a handful of the museum’s highlights: “Jackson Pollock’s ‘Lucifer’ is something that people come to see. It previously hung over Putter’s bed, before moving to the dining room and before coming here.” “There’s an incredible Mar…

…s identified with Pop Art—a connection he was quick to disclaim. Yet his own background in commercial art affect the way he handled subject matter. In Candy Counter, he heightens the intensity of the color so that orange and green candies seem to vibrate with an improbable brightness, suggesting the chromatic enhancement common in advertising art. The bands of complimentary colors edging the class and candy create a flicker reminiscent of the flu…

…completion of Stanford Wall (1980) by Josef Albers, currently installed near Littlefield Center. Albers donated the design for the sculpture in 1973, but the sculpture was not fully realized and installed until after his death. In a joint statement by the Andersons in 2011 regarding their intention to give Stanford a significant portion of their prized art collection, they said: “Throughout our adult lives, we have always been closely associated…

…by Richard Olcott of Ennead Architects, on the Stanford campus. “They consider themselves custodians of the work they collect,” says Jason Linetzky, the director of the Anderson Collection at Stanford. But, he adds, “they’re very down-to-earth and casual about how they live with the art.” A Renoir was moved from Putter’s room to make way for the Pollock. In the living room, Sam Francis’s 1955 Red in Red has pride of place above the fireplace; o…

…visitors can experience 121 major works—paintings and sculptures—by 86 modern and contemporary American artists, the magnificent gift of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson and their daughter, Mary Patricia Anderson Pence. Designed by Richard Olcott of Ennead Architects, the 33,000-square-foot structure, adjacent to the Cantor Arts Center, includes a library, a conference room, offices and storage space. Stanford is not the Andersons’ alma…

…e stellar work in the Anderson Collection, an impressive new museum opening Sunday at Stanford University. Given the prestige of the university, founded in 1891, it is remarkable to realize that Stanford has never been home to a major art collection. The closest it has come is the group of 200 sculptures by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), mostly contemporary bronze casts, housed at the Cantor Arts Center adjacent to the new museum. Overnight, the Ande…

…en to Stanford University, the 33,500-square-foot building does a good job at hiding in plain sight and allowing the art to command the attention. SLIDE SHOW DRAWINGS PEOPLE & PRODUCTS Rainscreen: Imperial Architectural Finishes Curtain Wall: Kawneer Entrances: Arcadia Stair Wall Finish: Armourcoat View all people & products —– Advertising —– Harry W. “Hunk” and Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson, who…

…any plant in Detroit, while probing social issues such as politics, race, religion and postwar consumer culture. The exhibition, which includes photographs from the book as well as many unknown and unfamiliar pictures, explores a rich body of work that remains largely hidden more than half a century after it was made. In addition to the new and closing exhibitions, there are several ongoing special exhibitions at the Cantor – from Chinese landsca…

…ed entirely on geometric shapes and patterns. In this piece, Diebenkorn plays with composition, lines and color. The artist is known for decomposing scenes from life into conglomerates of lines and shapes, as he does in “Ocean Park #60.” Diebenkorn uses a subdued, cool color palette, alluding to the ocean, though he adds depth to his composition by superimposing red and yellow lines across the upper half of the painting. 3. “Yosemite Falls” by Ma…

…big art muscle flexing on the Peninsula. In the last five years, Stanford has built an entire “arts district” in the heart of its campus. The site includes a new museum next to the Cantor Arts Center built to house the personal collection of one local family, the Andersons. A room at Stanford’s Anderson Collection. From left to right: “Timeless Clock,” by David Smith (1957); “Lucifer” by Jackson Pollack (1947); “Transfiguration III” by Adolph Go…

…ontemporary American art by 86 artists given to Stanford by Harry W. “Hunk” and Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson and their daughter, Mary Patricia “Putter” Anderson Pence, the Bay Area family which has been collecting art for over 50 years. The collection is anchored in Bay Area Figuration and the work of the New York School Abstract Expressionists and Color Field painters. Additionally, the collection presents Hard-Edge Painting, Post-Minimalism, Ba…