…out 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 added to the feast. On public opening day there were food trucks, live music and free posters for members. In…

…the scraggle of rocks and branches in the foreground. Homegrown artist Mark Tansey’s near-photographic precision in his painting contrasts with the general trend of abstract works being featured in the Anderson Collection. The artist’s decision to paint “Yosemite Falls” entirely in icy blue creates an ominous, otherworldly vibe by detaching the viewer from reality and into Tansey’s world of perception. 4. “Pink and White over Red” by Mark Rothko…

…ich shows four people standing in a field and looking at blanket that presumably covers a corpse, or corpses, on the ground. Several students noted the people, the odd lumpiness of the blanket and the reduced horizon. Sam Cartmell, one of the medical students, said, “Well, there may be more than four people,” and pointed to an odd contour at the shoulder of the lone woman in the photograph. The observation sparked a lively debate, as his fellow s…

Stanford Gets ‘Left of Center’ New exhibition of nonrepresentational abstraction opens a world of possibilities October 9, 2019 by Jeffrey Edalatpour My heartbeat accelerated when I caught a glimpse of Joan Mitchell’s Before, Again IV from the bottom of the wide steps that lead up to the main gallery upstairs. Her periwinkle- and rust-colored scribbles were the welcoming salvo into abstract expressionism that I’d been w…

…antor’s permanent collection by Stanford faculty member Nathan Oliveira and San Francisco painter Elmer Bischoff and a loaned work by the Abstract Expressionist Franz Kline. Oliveira and Bischoff, along with Stanford alumnus Diebenkorn, were leaders in the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s. The painting by Kline from 1950 expands how this selection expresses a range of approaches to formal abstraction as a means to represent the world and…

…l panel discussion in October 22, exploring how the work of artists of color is framed in institutional settings and will organize a two-part curated film series with the first session taking place in October 29 and the second session taking place in November 12. More programs will be announced throughout the academic year, including student engagements and a panel discussion. Updates will be available at anderson.stanford.edu and by email newsle…

…ection, is overseeing the move of the works to the new building and has also been named as the first director of the collection in its new home. Linetzky met the Andersons while enrolled in a summer drawing class at the San Francisco Art Institute when he answered a small job posting at an art supply store. He first helped as a part-time coordinator for the build-up to a major SFMOMA show they were lending to. Linetzky told artnet News: “As I lea…

A&E Digest: Student scholarships, fashion for a cause and more This week’s A&E news by Elizabeth Schwyzer / Palo Alto Weekly Twenty-seven student artists from Santa Clara and San Mateo counties have been awarded scholarships for by the Community School of Music and Arts. Photo courtesy of CSMA. This week, students win art scholarships, a film on feminist art screens at Stanford and international fashion designers sell their goods…

…n Collection at Stanford — are open again. A visit to campus reveals that, while some things have remained the same (the venerable Rodin sculpture collection, for example), there have been some significant changes at both museums since they last welcomed in-person visitors. In addition to current health policies such as mask mandates, timed tickets and social distancing rules, perhaps the most notable difference can be found at the Cantor,…

…lippery spaces between visibility and invisibility, made from the perspective of an American artist who was born in the Philippines, grew up in San Francisco, and takes as their subject matter larger national questions about belonging, citizenship, and the construction of racialized, exclusionary difference,” said Syjuco. “This is political and activist work, because representation matters.” Syjuco points out that Asian American artists like Ruth…

…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 from the National Science Foundation and was the first and…

…sted in change of scale: how the observer affects the object of observation; space as a void; non-space existing in time. By altering the scale and context of the grid (as a scientific tool of measurement), the grid becomes an artistic tool of perception.” — Lita Albuquerque The most unprecedented, remote and isolated locations were used to host a global project, made an unconventional space for art installations in the two ‘ends of the worlds’…

…s with her telegraph lines as she approaches the West Coast. The expanse of Lady Columbia’s dominion is laid out in a U.S. map printed on black vinyl, with implanted white flags representing hundreds of tribal lands. Called Their Land (2022), the map emphasizes the presence of Native tribes today, countering the misconception that Indigenous people are all but extinct. Nearby, a digital projection shows a collection of tribal seals found and rese…

…d 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 by some…