Full House What does a family with one of the most spectacular private collections of postwar American art do when they run out of space? Give some of it away. June 12, 2014 9:30 AM | by Pilar Viladas There are people who live with art, and then there are Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson. Better known as Hunk and Moo, the Andersons, who are 91 and 87, respectively, share their comfortable, unpretentious ranch house in Atherton, California,…

…ly translating the atmosphere of the Anderson home to a major museum, while at the same time creating a flexible space that would allow the collection to be experienced in unique ways. Knowing the collection so well helped immensely when designing the new space, and we had a wonderful team in our architects, Ennead.” His main hope for the collection: “That the Anderson Collection at Stanford University will become a place people return to time an…

Palette Cleanser: A new campus museum quietly serves up a visual banquet. By Lydia Lee It’s tempting for designers to try to turn art museums into works of art themselves. But what if the client’s directive is just the opposite? A new campus museum in the Bay Area by the New York–based firm Ennead Architects may disappoint those hoping for a bigger architectural statement. However, as designed to house the 121 works of the Anderson Collection,…

Contrary to popular belief, Stanford isn’t strictly a Silicon Valley trade school for Internet billionaires. It also trains Internet millionaires—as well as, believe it or not, thousandaire philosophers, journalists, and artists! Because aside from computer science and electrical engineering, Stanford offers degrees in a full range of humanities disciplines, including the fine arts. To that end, two months ago the university opened a small, gl…

Stanford Arts District museums offer plenty for a world-class cultural staycation Old favorites, new acquisitions offer something for every age, taste AddThis Sharing Buttons Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Print Share to More by Sheryl Nonnenberg / Contributor With gas prices soaring and airline travel not so fun anymore, it might be a good time to consider cultural offerings closer to home. The Stanford campus is h…

Reviews Stephanie Syjuco: White Balance/Color Cast | Anderson Collection at Stanford University BY Rachel Heise Bolten, January 3, 2023 Stephanie Syjuco’s exhibition White Balance/Color Cast, on view through March 5, manufactures histories, real and counterfeit. Her work includes photographs, though she does not call herself a photographer – she teaches sculpture as an associate professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Her pictures…

…ackler museums under one glass roof. The $250 million project in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will increase gallery space by 40 percent, add facilities for teaching, study and art conservation, and create new public spaces and courtyards. The Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, completed a $135 million renovation and reconfiguration of its three adjacent museum buildings in late 2012, a project designed by Ennead Architects, which…

Stanford University’s riches keep accumulating but, this time around, rather than an announcement of a staggering increase in their endowment or the construction of a sports arena worthy of a prince, they’ve received the core of what many consider one of the finest privately-held collections of 20th-century post-war art. The Anderson family, who live in an affluent neighborhood near the university, has given Stanford 121 primo works…

…table picture of the postwar American art scene. What’s unusual, he says, is that while the Andersons were buying in the late 1960s and ’70s New York School works created 20 years before by Pollock and de Kooning, they were also collecting contemporary works by California Funk artists like the irreverent ceramicist Robert Arneson, Bay Area Figurative painters and Southern California Light and Space artists like Robert Irwin. “My…

…takes on a similar theme in proximity to each other for two hours,” said Lerman-Tan. “Bringing medicine into the space of the museum was a great aspect of the course — simply allowing different bodies of knowledge to exist under one roof. The medical students would sometimes use clinical vocabulary or concepts to describe works in the gallery, making for an interesting range of language in our discussions.” Bringing medicine into the space of the…

…xplore the history, evolution and practice of performance art in both traditional and nontraditional performance spaces in the course Performance StratLab: Visual and Live Performance in Art Space. The course will be taught by Aleta Hayes, lecturer in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies, and Aimee Shapiro, director of programming and engagement at the Anderson Collection. Shapiro views Cave’s work as an extraordinary teaching tool….

…$41m Steven Holl-designed ICA. At Columbia—another university with a highly ranked MFA programme but no suitable space to showcase student work—the planned Lenfest Center for the Arts has been marketed as an olive branch to the community. As the school prepares to open a controversial satellite campus uptown, which has been criticised for buying out local businesses, the centre represents an effort “to be a good neighbour”, says Carol Becker, the…

Local resident Moo Anderson and her family gifted Stanford a celebrated collection of postwar and contemporary American art and her prized collection of art books and catalogs. BY BETH GIUDICESSI AND ROBIN WANDER Stanford donor Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson died Oct. 22 at her Bay Area Peninsula home surrounded by her family. She was 92. In 2011, Moo, her late husband, Harry “Hunk” Anderson, and their daughter, Mary Patricia “Putter” Ande…

Stepping into the Wisch Family Gallery at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University evokes a polar desert’s quiet and dangerous beauty. Centered amidst  large-scale photographs of a pristine white, icy environment, an otherworldly ultramarine-blue sphere measuring slightly over 3 feet in diameter rests on a bed of what appears to be snow. The sphere, representing Rigil Kentaurus, the third-brightest star in the night sky, is a key element o…