…in photography, a genre not included in the Anderson Collection. “Museums all over the country had their eyes on it hoping to get it until Hunk and Moo made their decision in favor of Stanford.” The Andersons did not choose Stanford because they went there. They didn’t, and neither did their only child, Mary Patricia “Putter” Anderson Pence. Hunk attended Hobart College in New York, where he co-founded a company to manage the school’s cafeteria….

…ructure is a “bespoke building,” according to designer Richard Olcott of the firm Ennead Architects. It was inspired by the Andersons’ own California ranch house–a series of interconnected spaces where gigantic art can be displayed with ease. At Stanford, those spaces in the second-floor gallery are exceptionally inviting, just as one might imagine it would be. Each work represents a movement in art and is arranged accordi…

…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 experimental pieces. You don’t need to be schooled in stuffy academic artspeak. You can be as Luciferian as you want. And it’s free. Just bring money for parking. With Rodin’s Gates of Hell already a common stop for…

…. Every room is a new theme, including California Light and Space, Funk, Hard-Edge Painting and Post-Minimalism. You pity the tourists, who come with cameras and visit only once. They are overwhelmed (delightfully so), scrambling to decode every movement, to mingle with every painting. As a student, though, you start with small talk but look for something more. You have a chance at romance. Your dry spell is over — prospects are everywhere! In on…

…o go from minus 10 to plus 100.” Naiveté about the challenge of building a top-notch art collection played in their favor. “We didn’t know it couldn’t be done,” Harry admits, “so we just went ahead and did it.” The new museum puts Stanford in the front ranks among elite university museums (especially as it complements the school’s Cantor Art Center, founded in 1891), but it’s got a laid-back,…

…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, glowing new museum to house a significant modern-art collection donated by a local family who, to further confound your preconceptions, made its fortune not in tech but food service. If your college campus meals were supplied by Saga Corp., you can take…

…le in less than three months. “That teamlab animation is something to marvel at,” Kimball says. “It’s immersive. It’s so animated. There’s so much to look at.” Kimball insists she’s not really feeling competitive with Pace, though she wishes her organization had resources more in line with the shiny new neighbor up the road. “Pace certainly has a kick ass team,” Kimball says. “They also have a kick ass budget. There aren’t a lot of us who can mou…

BY ROBIN WANDER The Anderson Collection at Stanford University accepted 13 gifts of art into the museum’s permanent collection this academic year. These are the first acquisitions since the museum opened in 2014, originally as a non-collecting institution, and the first gifts not from the Anderson family. The new direction is a welcome one for students, faculty, the Stanford community, the Anderson family and beyond. Anderson Collection patr…

…pink paint to accentuate the marble’s natural veins. These washed-out splashes of color adorn her face as if she’s been marked with aboriginal tattoos. From the back, her hair is made into an impeccably polished round bun. Makida III is situated in the middle of the gallery and she compels your attention. The six figures in the ink-on-paper series Japanese Dancer Study (Makiko) are even more cryptic. These midnight black sketches and…

…ont of his colorful “Four Women,” owned by the Collection. The Collection also collaborates with the Cantor Arts Center in presenting the annual McMurtry Lecture, which brings nationally recognized artists like Nick Cave, Robert Irwin and Judy Chicago to speak at the Bing Center. The Collection has made concerted efforts to reach out to the community, beyond the campus. The Second Sunday Program is geared toward young families and inc…

…d 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 York University. Their art will be exhibited in New York City this coming fall. The Stanford Daily [TSD]: What inspired your current exhibit, “Reaching Towards Warmer Suns” with the Anderson Collec…

…lex on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park. For those who are unfamiliar with the background of this collection and how it came to Stanford, it’s worthwhile to pop into the comfortably appointed library. Here, the Andersons’ private library of art books (used to assist them in their collecting) and a video interview with the couple can be found. The second floor is where the initial 2014 gift of 121 paintings and sculptures, as well as more…

…rque 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 from the National Science Foundation and was the first and largest ephemeral artwork created on the continent. The resulting installation consisted of an array of 99 fabricated blue spheres where each sphere’s placement corresponded to the location of one of 99…

…Nevelson at Pace but had second thoughts, and six months later they returned, expressing their regret. Glimcher invited them into his office, where the Nevelson was waiting. “I knew you’d be back,” he said. “We were lucky to be in the right place at the right time, and to have the wherewithal to do something about it,” Moo emphasizes. (Saga Foods, the food-service company that Hunk and two fellow students started at Hobart College in 1948 and so…

…Lawrence, and one painting by his wife, Gwendolyn Knight, from the Gabrielle Reem and Herbert Kayden Collection. In Lawrence trove are “11 drawings, five paintings, nine prints and one illustrated book.” Andy Warhol’s archive of 3,600 contact sheets and accompanying negatives: “Through an invitation-only competition among some of the nation’s leading art museums, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts selected the Cantor Arts Center as th…