…gh a Calder mobile and others still take up residence there. And Hunk Anderson’s Cliff May-designed office complex will now be missing major artworks, but the Andersons are pleased their collection will be on public display in a dedicated building on the Stanford campus. “I think in order to enjoy art, you have to share it,” remarked Moo Anderson to the  LA Times . Located adjacent to the university’s Cantor Arts Center, the And…

…rson Collection of postwar American art, opening this weekend at a new $36 million museum at Stanford University in California. For Stanford, which first made its reputation as an engineering school, the building is the second of three projects to create an arts district around its flagship museum, the Cantor Center. The nearby $112 million Bing Concert Hall opened in 2013, and next year will see the completion of the $85 million McMurtry Buildin…

One of HUNK ANDERSON’s favorite observations about the remarkable artwork that once hung in his dining room, including Jackson Pollock’s Lucifer and Willem de Kooning’s Woman Standing – Pink, among others, is that one could enjoy a feast in the room without ever having a meal, thanks to the rich visual display. The feast proved moveable and equally rich when the paintings were relocated to the campus over the summer and served to the Stanford co…

…s 67 feet long, 42 feet wide and 13 feet high, and is composed of contoured steel and weighs more than 200 tons. It is considered one of Serra’s greatest achievements. Transporting it to Stanford required a dozen wide-body flatbed trucks and specialists in the rigging of objects on this massive scale. The deinstallation process promises to be equally complex. The best views will be from the second-story windows of the Cantor or the Anderson…

…Rothko An American painter and, like Pollock, a contributor to the abstract expressionist movement, Mark Rothko is one of the most celebrated artists of the postwar era. Painted in his signature style — featuring the motif of rectangular forms floating in a field of color — Rothko’s “Pink and White over Red” consists of a white, rectangular spot of paint overlaid on an expansive red background. The piece’s unconventional composition attests to R…

…tects, New York State (AIANY). Designed by RICHARD OLCOTT/Ennead Architects, the building housing the collection is located in the heart of Stanford’s arts district. The Anderson Collection at Stanford University celebrates its first anniversary this month. The collection, a gift from Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson and Mary Patricia Anderson Pence, and is one of the world’s most outstanding private assemblies of modern and contemporary Ameri…

…ttons, sequins, and human hair. Sometimes he puts dancers in the suits (Cave trained with Alvin Ailey) and calls it performance art. Whatever  you call it, it’s very cool stuff and very worth a visit to Stanford. Both the Anderson Collection and the Cantor are always free, so it’s one of our Cheap Thrills this week.   Sept 16 & 17: Angelica’s in Redwood City is a kind of throwback, a supper club where you can go for dinner and a show. Wi…

…for unique marble carvings) and eight related works on paper. A special exhibition featuring the new Neri works is planned for Sept. 15, 2017, to Feb. 12, 2018. California native Weatherford, another California native, is one of the most sought after contemporary painters of our time, according to Linetzky. The Flashe and neon on linen black painting, from the 2016-2017 suite of paintings called like the land loves the sea, is a gift of Debra an…

…s widely regarded as a second-rate material suitable only for maquettes and lamp bases, but he quickly seized on it’s quick-setting properties and receptivity to common tools. In 1998, on the occasion of an exhibition of his work at the Orange County Museum of Art, Neri spoke about why he preferred working with it.. “It’s a blah material,” he philosophized, “a dumb material. It doesn’t dictate to you at all. You can do anything you want to with i…

…ctly adjacent to Ad Reinhardt’s Abstract Painting. What used to read as a dull sameness pulsed to life, as if the two painters’ black moods were facing each other in a long-delayed but convulsive dialogue. Nearby, the painting I liked the least was also the one I had the most affection for, Josef Albers’ Homage to the Square: Diffused. His concentric, off-kilter squares lie flat and dimensionless on the canvas. But the pale yell…

…he Anderson Collection and has become a vital library and teaching space within the museum. But for Moo, nothing compared to seeing artwork in person. “It’s good to study art in books, but something happens in the presence of the original – it affects the brain, taste, feelings and more,” she commented at the opening of the Anderson Collection. When asked if she would miss having the art in her home, she replied, “I think in order to enjoy art, y…

The donation by the late Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson comes as the museum commemorates its fifth anniversary and launches a new fundraising effort. BY BETH GIUDICESSI To mark its fifth anniversary, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University was gifted two major works of art, Jackson Pollock’s 1944 Totem Lesson 1 and Willem de Kooning’s c. 1949 Gansevoort Street, by its eponymous supporter Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson. Anderson donate…

…ages are oppressive. They’re meant to contain and capture and create boundaries. When working with soil, my goal is to create a form that doesn’t yet exist or one that evokes biomorphic shapes. I don’t want to package it into something neat and safe for easy consumption. LB Whoa! Where does your rule against squares come from? KW When I was in grad school, the critic Claire Bishop delivered a talk in which she argued that research-driven contempo…

…’s very specific to this campus,” said Aimee Shapiro, the show’s curator. Nowhere is that role more evident than in the ceremonial last spike that Stanford hammered upon the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869; that spike, which is inscribed with Stanford’s name among others, is now in the university’s Cantor Arts Center collection. Red Star has recreated Stanford’s golden last spike as part of a carved foam sculpture where it pie…

…York City, Francis instead moved to Paris in 1950. There, the French tradition of color and light – as embodied in the work of Matisse, Bonnard, and Monet – had a lasting influence on his practice. While abroad, he forged a style that was unmistakably his own, as evidenced in Red in Red, and became one of the most well-known American artists of his generation in Western Europe and Japan, where he first traveled in 1957 and would come to spend si…

…ceramics in concept and craftsmanship. The exhibition – which features 11 works by Kathy Butterly, Kahlil Robert Irving, Simone Leigh and Brie Ruais – was postponed from spring 2020 and will be on view upon the museum’s reopening, hopefully in early 2021. A virtual tour of the show is available online now. “By sharing the work and voices of these contemporary artists, our visitors can engage with current issues while reflecting on work in the per…