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…

…taking place about the role of — or critiquing — statues of Confederate criminals throughout the United States, and so there was a public conversation happening about, “what is the role of public art,” “what is the role of monuments to white male war criminals.” Given all of that, I was inspired to create a public artwork, a monument rooted in a different aesthetic and conceptual framework. TSD: Could you go more into depth about why you choose…

New acquisition by David Park on view at the Anderson Collection The museum reopens to the public on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021. ROBIN WANDER | September 15, 2021 Late last year, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University received a gift from two individuals, one who has been giving the gift of time to the museum for years and the other an alumnus. Keith Jantzen and his husband, Scott Beth, ’82, donated Untitled (Portrait of Tom Jef…

…were able to become artists themselves, whose working process required research as well as the act of art-making to be on view at a contemporary art museum,” Shapiro said. The anchoring piece of the exhibition, American Progress, and the projected seals of tribes from across our country “make visible the commitment of both the students and the artist to present a counter-narrative to the much more common displays of American history in museums,”…

…bout conversations with older people. As I attempted to come up with a question about Francis’s work, one turned to me and asked: “Isn’t it too abstract? What do you think?” “Yes, it’s a bit too abstract for me. I am not very into modern art. This one is very Pollock though,” I said and pointed to a piece with myriad colors and brushstrokes dropped onto the canvas. “Yes, me too.” She continued to explain how she was fascinated by his connection w…