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A new lust for art takes hold in Silicon Valley

…o Alto, would make sense to add to that list. But not so, says Glimcher. “There was no significant presence by a commercial gallery in Silicon Valley,” he explains. “When an amazing thing comes on the market, (art collectors in the area) can’t always get on a plane and go to New York to see them. So now that really amazing thing will come to them.” And there is certainly evidence of an increasing appetite for contemporary and modern art in the su…

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Mary Margaret ‘Moo’ Anderson, modern art collector and benefactor, dead at 92

Richard Diebenkorn’s “Girl on the Beach” is one of the many pieces of postmodern American art displayed at Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson’s home.Photo: Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle 2014 Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson who, with her late husband Harry “Hunk” Anderson, built one of the most important collections of American modern and contemporary art in private hands, died Tuesday, Oct. 22, at her home on the Peninsula. Her death was confirmed Thursday,…

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Works by Pollock, de Kooning donated to Stanford’s Anderson Collection

…Anderson Collection. “They were really the leaders of the Abstract Expressionists in New York.” The announcement comes less than a week after the death of Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson, who has been the main benefactor of the collection since the death of her husband, Harry W. “Hunk” Anderson, in February 2018. Moo Anderson had committed the gifts months ago, in honor of the fifth anniversary of the Anderson Collection. She had been scheduled to a…

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Nick Cave

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Stanford’s art explosion in heart of Silicon Valley

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Stanford: The New Art Place To Be

…ted 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 the permanent home of Warhol’s archive of contact sheets and negatives. They’ll all be digitized, too.   Read much more background and about the plans for these three collections here.  All I ca…

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Pollock’s stellar ‘Lucifer’ and impressive Anderson Collection

…ented in eccentric ceramic sculptures by David Gilhooly and Robert Arneson. Los Angeles’ emergence centers on Light and Space art. A black-and-white geometric abstraction by John McLaughlin rightly establishes painting as the launching pad for the genre’s perceptual clarity. Committing every sin of “good” composition on the way to achieving its sublime ends, the beautiful painting is the perfect setup for an exquisite, lac…

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Senate visits the arts district to discuss the humanities

…to apply to Stanford; to retain students with programs that maintain and deepen their interest in the humanities once here; and to track what happens to them after they graduate. “We’ve been working with admissions on reaching out to students with humanities interests,” Satz said. “This has included brochures that the departments have been sending out, letters from department chairs to high school students, and a summer pr…

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Meet Manuel Neri’s Muses: ‘Assertion of the Figure’ highlights the models behind the sculpture

…pture September 27, 2017 Jeffrey Edalatpour A subject study, ‘Joan Brown with Neri Sculpture I,’ one of the Manuel Neri sketches on display at Stanford’s Anderson Collection. Manuel Neri’s muses are equal partners in Assertion of the Figure, an exhibit of the Bay Area artist’s work at Stanford’s Anderson Collection. He’s primarily known as a figurative sculptor, one who represents the female body. Whi…

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Anderson Collection at Stanford University announces the acquisition of two major works by Pollock, de Kooning

…es. Accordingly, it has transformed into an essential resource for campus teaching and learning and as a hub for community engagement. The Anderson family hopes its ongoing support of the museum will inspire others to invest in it as well. Moo believed that to enjoy art, it must be shared; before she died, she encouraged the community to continue with its plans to gather in celebration of the Anderson Collection and to contribute to the success o…

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Updates Related to Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

March 23, 2020 Click here for the latest changes to Stanford Art Museums programming. Please check back frequently for updates….

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Eamon Ore-Giron Named to Presidential Residency at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University

…to be a destination for discourse around modern and contemporary art by raising voices that offer diverse lenses on its history and how our collection can play a role in understanding the course of American art,” said Jason Linetzky, director of the Anderson Collection. “As a painter, Eamon Ore-Giron combines architectural shapes—circles, triangles, arches, rectangles—in bold colors and interlocking compositions. His approach is also one of inter…

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Second Sunday at Home

…ivating wearable sculptures inspired by artist Nick Cave. Museum educators will be presenting Second Sunday Live on July 12, 2020 via Zoom from 11AM-11:30AM PDT. You can download the activity guide prior to the event. Click here to register, and you will receive details to access the Zoom session. To protect privacy, the format will be a Zoom webinar and participant cameras will be turned off. About Nick Cave’s Soundsuits Cave’s first Soun…

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Digital Holiday Gift Basket

Happy holidays from the Cantor and Anderson Collection! The holidays are here and it’s time to celebrate. The Cantor and Anderson Collection at Stanford University are excited to share our Digital Holiday Gift Basket. We hope you’ll find it to be a great way to relax and enjoy select virtual tours, engaging lectures and artist talks, fun art-making projects, and many more activities we’ve chosen for you. We know that there is no substitute to ex…

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Apsáalooke artist Wendy Red Star creatively engages with the Stanford community

By Robin Wander Wendy Red Star: American Progress on view at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University is a solo exhibition of works by the artist Wendy Red Star, who was raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana. With historical research, Stanford student collaborations, large-scale installations, and images of sovereignty, Red Star asks viewers to grapple with the layered complexity of American history. On view on the first…

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Why Artist Wendy Red Star Centered Indigenous People in Her Abstracted Revision of the Iconic Manifest Destiny Painting ‘American Progress’

…during the early 2000s. But one morning, her professor projected a slide of John Gast’s American Progress (1872) onto the lecture hall’s massive screen. It jolted her awake. The iconic painting is meant to promote the idea of Manifest Destiny, centering on an oversized Lady Columbia who illuminates a path for white settlers to go West and develop supposedly untouched lands. “The whole chasing the dark away, and all the people of color basically f…

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The Anderson Collection presents a solo exhibition of works by Stanford alum Stephanie Syjuco

…atharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York. Photo: John Janca) The exhibition opened on Sept. 18 and will be on view through March 5, 2023. The Anderson Collection is always free and open to the public. “Presenting Stephanie’s work at the Anderson Collection is important for us because she is deeply committed to uncovering and re-presenting histories and making them more visible in relation to people of color,” said Ja…

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Sam Francis Centennial