Gansevoort Street (1949) by Willem de Kooning depicts the meatpacking district of Manhattan in the postwar years. Photo: Anderson Collection The Anderson Collection at Stanford University is adding major works by midcentury masters Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, officials announced Monday, Oct. 28. “Totem Lesson 1,” painted in 1944 by Pollock, and “Gansevoort Street” (1949) by de Kooning will both be on public display starting Wednesday,…

…e event was recorded from the helicopter above. Lita Albuquerque with the tourists reached its destination 90 degrees North, North Pole, 2007. Performance directed by Lita Albuquerque at the North Pole, 90 Degrees North, 2007. One sizeable blue sphere was placed on the ice floe at the exact latitude of 90 degrees N – which completed the mission of this stunning project making the final mark in the “Light in Sacred Space” serie…

…new it took only a phone call to Hunk’s office to arrange a tour of the Anderson home for our classes. For me, the ideal scheduling of this tour took place near the end of the course, when students had done enough reading and writing to appreciate the breadth and uncommon beauty of the collection. On these visits, Hunk customarily was in attendance, asking questions of the students. I would always tell them in advance to make good use of th…

…ng is the second of three projects to create an arts district around its flagship museum, the Cantor Center. The nearby $112 million Bing Concert Hall opened in 2013, and next year will see the completion of the $85 million McMurtry Building to house the Art and Art History Department, whose programs have been scattered across the campus near Palo Alto. The Anderson Collection opens as Stanford begins a policy in which every undergraduate “must t…

…n’t so much reside as rule. The multi-part, multi-media aluminum construction, consisting of nine separate components with cut-outs and painted squiggles, is virtually three-dimensional, and made by someone who must have been on drugs at the time, or high by other means. Painting dominates, but there are several compelling sculptures like Nancy Graves’ “Telestitch” (1988), a delicate, playful iron-and-bronze sculpture with…

Collectors Harry “Hunk” and Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson made their fortune from Mr. Anderson’s Saga Foods, supplying food to universities and other institutions. But these days, they’re providing Stanford University with a lot more than lunch. Last weekend, Stanford unveiled a 33,500-square-foot building to house the Anderson Collection, 121 contemporary artworks donated by the Andersons, including major artw…

…ll include art studios, while outside the district, a $28 million renovation of Roble Gym into an “art gym” will add rehearsal and performance space. Before the Bing, students complained about the bad acoustics of an auditorium serving as an ad hoc concert hall. Mr. Hennessy’s initiative raised nearly $160 million from donors for new buildings. The university contributed roughly another $100 million, he said, primarily from discretionary presiden…

…uilding, aiming to recreate their own intimate experience of the art. Stanford tapped Ennead, which had recently completed a concert hall on campus, to design the new exhibition space. “The premise of the whole endeavor was to make it about the art and only about the art,” says Richard Olcott, design principal at the firm. Ennead’s first commission at Stanford, more than 15 years ago, was a self-effacing addition to the neighboring Cantor A…

…ional works to depictions of purely abstract forms — in other words, from accurate depictions of real objects to compositions based 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 add…

…as rivals and friends. Both felt they were inventing something new, and these works help us think about what it means to approach something like no one has done it before.” The newest acquisitions are now on view and are accessible to the public for the first time in years; the most recent exhibition of both pieces in the Bay Area was in January 2001. They hang near Franz Kline’s Figure 8 (1952) and adjacent to Left of Center, a student-curated…

…Arts Center) hosted three solo exhibitions of Francis’ work, which furthered his relationships with the Stanford community and his exposure in the Bay Area. During that time, he embarked on a series of large-scale paintings based on a combination of drips, watery washes, and dense splotches. The Beaubourg is from that series and is typical of his painted work that fuses energy and movement into color. In 1986, Francis established a studio near th…

…, California-based environmental artist Lita Albuquerque led an expedition to the farthest reaches of Antarctica near the South Pole to create Stellar Axis: Antarctica. The journey to the ice included a team of experts, researchers, and artists, with Albuquerque at the helm. Their sole purpose was to create a sculpture and ephemeral event on an unprecedented scale and in a completely unprecedented location. The expedition was aided by a grant fro…