…o: 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 feel crafted, made. For…

…lobby, administrative offices, a resource center, and bathrooms—are on the ground floor, saving the upper floor for just enjoying art. The wall along the stair continues beyond floor level to form a balustrade for the second-floor galleries and is covered with a gray finish, to add a quiet variation to the otherwise white space. The museum director purposely kept the stairwell free of any artwork, allowing the anticipation to build as you ascend…

…rt” is on view through May 31. Richard Serra’s sculpture Sequence and the Rodin Sculpture Garden are still available to those who prefer an outdoor encounter with art. Outdoor dining at Cool Cafe has not yet returned but, according to the museum’s website, will soon be announced. All three museum directors are happy to be engaging with the public and encouraging in-person experiences with their collections again. When asked what…

…first page of which bears the signature “Clyfford Still”), has a good-size canvas by Hans Hoffmann. Indeed, when the Andersons bought their prized Pollock in 1970, they hung it over Putter’s bed, because, as Moo says, “we had an empty space on the wall.” When the art dealer André Emmerich came to visit, he took one look at the painting and said to Hunk: “Maybe you ought to move that.” For the Andersons, collecting has always been an evolutionary…

Not to be missed at the Anderson Collection (in no particular order): 1. Richard Diebenkorn: “Berkeley No. 26,” 1954. 2. Frank Stella: “Zeltweg,” 1981. 3. Ellsworth Kelly: “Black Ripe,” 1955. 4. David Park: “Four Women,” 1959 (on the cover). 5. Jackson Pollock: “Lucifer,” 1947. 6. Morris Louis: “Number 64,” 1958. 7. Wayne Thiebaud: “Candy Counter,” 1962. 8. Mark Rothko: “Pink and White Over Red,” 1957. 9. Vija Celmins: “Barrier,” 1986. 10. Phili…

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…

…erms of new programs, new facilities and, in some areas, new faculty, has been remarkably transformative.” Saller and Debra Satz, senior associate dean for the humanities and arts, discussed the steps the university is taking to get prospective students interested in 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 aft…

…to New Arts District“) will be located at the entrance to the campus, adjacent to the Cantor Arts Center. It is the latest addition to Stanford’s newly created arts district, which includes the recently opened Bing Concert Hall and the McMurty Building for the department of art and art history. Jason Linetzky, the longtime director of the collection, is overseeing the move of the works to the new building and has also been named as the first dir…