…tor of the violence, simultaneously desiring to memorialize the joy that Black people are able to create despite the incessant violence we face. I am trying to engage this content with scale and within orientation of the works I am producing. We know that artists bring new ways of thinking to contemporary issues. As such, do you have advice for scholars or community members who are looking to artists to help make sense of challenging times? The a…

A new exhibition at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University – Nick Cave – challenges the boundaries between multiple artistic and creative disciplines. BY ROBIN WANDER When the exhibition Nick Cave opens at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, visitors will encounter the intersection of visual art and performance in a collection of Cave’s Soundsuits, videos and a documentary film. The exhibition opens Sept. 14 and runs…

…ly ’90s before becoming a private art adviser, and she now counsels Hunk and Moo on their purchases, scoping out the New York galleries in advance of her parents’ arrival. “It really is a family affair,” Linetzky says. And the family that collects together gives it away together. Hunk puts it succinctly: “Because of what we were able to collect, Moo and I said to ourselves, this is something that really belongs to the world.”…

…few years. During his recuperation, Francis studied with the artist David Park, who later became a key figure of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. For Francis, painting became a “way back to life.” In the late 1940s, he returned to the University of California, Berkeley, where he was enrolled before enlisting and changed course from pre-med to painting and art history. At a time when many young artists flocked to New York City, Francis instead mo…

…discretionary presidential funds and Google patent revenue streams. Mr. Hennessy also had a key role in securing the gift of the Anderson Collection from Harry and Mary Margaret Anderson (known as Hunk and Moo): 121 paintings and sculptures, including gems of Bay Area figuration and New York School abstraction, led by Pollock’s drip painting “Lucifer.” The couple offered their trove with one big string attached: They wanted to see it shown togeth…

…ca Deeman is a visual artist living and working in San Francisco, CA. Originally from the U.K., she has lived in the States for just over 8 years. Deeman’s work explores portraiture and its traditions through the intersections of gender, race, and ethnic identities. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, UK; Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA; Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, and…

…or half a century. Their daughter, Mary Patricia (AKA “Putter”), also contributed to the collection. Their massive gift happened entirely due to recent initiatives at Stanford, schemes to further the required arts education of every single student in every major. Someone, somewhere, on that campus finally realized that teaching everyone how to be creative helps the entire world in the long run. As a result, a holy trinity of three new…

…science and electrical engineering, Stanford offers degrees in a full range of humanities disciplines, including the fine arts. To that end, two months ago the university opened a small, glowing new museum to house a significant modern-art collection donated by a local family who, to further confound your preconceptions, made its fortune not in tech but food service. If your college campus meals were supplied by Saga Corp., you can take comfort i…

…month with the unveiling of the Anderson Collection. One of the most valuable gifts in Stanford’s history, the collection of 20th-century American art was assembled over the course of fifty years by Bay Area collectors Harry W. “Hunk” and Mary Margaret “Moo Moo” Anderson along with their daughter Mary Patricia “Putter” Anderson Pence. Richard Olcott, a partner in New York-based Ennead Architects, designed…

…as installation and curatorial support. “They just started looking and collecting, without much direction, until they met two people on (the Stanford) campus: Al Elsen and Nathan Oliveira.” According to Linetzky, Elsen, who was a professor of art history, encouraged the Andersons to look at master works, to go to the Museum of Modern Art in New York and see examples by the likes of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Oliveira, a painter and Stanford…

…n of U.S. history and colonial practices. Eighteen works installed throughout the museum’s first floor challenge the assumption that images and historical materials are objective or neutral.   Installation shot of Stephanie Syjuco’s “Block Out the Sun,” 2021. Single-channel video with sound. Edition of 3 +2AP. (Image credit: Courtesy of the artist, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York. Photo: John Janca) T…

Honing the art of observation, and observing art A new medical school course brings students to the Cantor Arts Center and Anderson Collection to practice close observation of art, and then learn how to translate those skills to a clinical setting. MAR 6 201 Medical students Sam Cartmell (facing camera) and Abhinav Golla (in red sweatshirt) look at Robert Frank’s Car Accident — U.S. 66, Between Winslow and Flagstaff, Arizona at the Cant…

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…