…million McMurtry Building to house the Art and Art History Department, whose programs have been scattered across the campus near Palo Alto. The Anderson Collection opens as Stanford begins a policy in which every undergraduate “must take at least one class on arts or related areas,” said Matthews Tiews, executive director of Stanford’s arts programs, at a museum preview this week. The goal is that even the computer-science nerds have “a reasonabl…

…, has given Stanford 121 primo works by some 86 artists, from Clyfford Still, Philip Guston, Helen Frankenthaler and Frank Lobdell to Squeak Carnwath, Mark Rothko, Wayne Thiebaud and Frank Stella, which are now housed in a new, donor-funded, 33,000 sq. ft. campus building that opened to the public this week. Though the architectural aesthetics of the facility, designed by Richard Olcott, whose firm Ennead Architects completed Stanford’s Bin…

…. 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 students took turns looking closely at the work, seeking to discern what Cartmell said he’d noticed. This moment, said Nafta…

…e programming for this well-attended weekend event. Responding to the Anderson Collection’s permanent collection of works as well as those by Cave, the program will engage parents and students in the process of actively seeing and experiencing the arts at the Anderson Collection. In the spring, Stanford students will explore the history, evolution and practice of performance art in both traditional and nontraditional performance spaces in the cou…

…This multi-million-dollar investment in culture is fuelled by several factors: administrators’ recognition that the arts can promote nimble thinking, student demand and donor co-operation. “Stanford made this analysis that the arts and creativity were going to be absolutely vital to the next generation of problem solvers, of people who could understand different perspectives and what it means to bring something new into the world,” says Matthew…

…anet rotated and followed its orbit around the sun, the displacement between the original positions of the stars and the spheres drew an invisible spiral of Earth’s spinning motion. Since the early 1970s, Albuquerque has created an expansive body of work, ranging from sculpture, poetry, painting, and multimedia performance to ambitious site-specific ephemeral projects in remote locations around the globe. Often associated with the Light and Space…

…nderson Collection at Stanford University miss seeing you. We are eager to welcome you back to campus, share art and connect over ideas. Now through August 31, 2020, we are offering all Stanford graduates in the class of 2020 one year of free Ambassador membership ($100 value*) to both museums. Each membership covers up to two adults and children within a single household. To get your FREE membership, fill out the form available via this link….

…#60” is a product of Bay Area painter Richard Diebenkorn’s progression from representational works to depictions of purely abstract forms — in other words, from accurate depictions of real objects to compositions based entirely on geometric shapes and patterns. In this piece, Diebenkorn plays with composition, lines and color. The artist is known for decomposing scenes from life into conglomerates of lines and shapes, as he does in “Ocean Park #6…

When Allison and Dan Rose moved into their historic Palo Alto home, their art was essentially limited to Pottery Barn and Z Gallerie buys. It was interior designer Jon de la Cruz who suggested the couple consider elevating their acquisitions. Four years later, the walls of their 1905 Craftsman are decorated with contemporary works from the likes of John Chiara, Gabriel Orozco, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra and Hiroshi Sugimoto. “We started buying a…

…meal,” says Mr. Anderson, referring to the art that once hung there. How did they become Hunk and Moo? Mr. Anderson, now 91, got his nickname when assistant football coach Heartley “Hunk” Anderson replaced Knute Rockne at the University of Notre Dame, and friends started calling him Hunk. On a date, Mr. Anderson introduced Mrs. Anderson to a friend as “Murma”—what her parents called her—and someone at the end of the…

…ased because of its racist structures.” Stephanie Syjuco in conversation with Stanford art historian Kim Biel at the Anderson Collection White Balance/Color Cast delves into the history of photography by challenging the idea of correct and incorrect color. “It turns out that early film was not good at capturing dark skin tones,” Syjuco says. “This actually affected how photography has represented racialized people.” When she uses the color bar in…

The Anderson Collection opens to the public at its new Stanford University home this Sunday, Sept. 21, in a freestanding pavilion next to the Cantor Arts Center in the University’s growing arts district. Members of the Cantor Arts Center and the Anderson Collection can also attend a special preview of the museum on Sept. 20. Opening day festivities will include food trucks, music, activities and digital tours. Admission is free, and while visito…

…eekly 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 for a good cause. SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENTS … The Mountain View-based arts nonprofit, Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA),…

…Kahlil Robert Irving’s work resonates with me right now in a very contemporary way. He looks at what’s discarded and hand crafts it, with great care, into a beautiful object that’s given a different life,” said Aimee Shapiro, director of programming and engagement at the Anderson Collection. “He’s a young artist whose work addresses issues of police brutality and racism – issues that have existed for a long time and came to the forefront this yea…