…gh an invitation-only competition among some of the nation’s leading art museums, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts selected the Cantor Arts Center as the permanent home of Warhol’s archive of contact sheets and negatives. They’ll all be digitized, too.   Read much more background and about the plans for these three collections here.  All I can say is that this is a wonderful confluence of gifts and events and I wish I had plans to…

…aculty members to collaborate with its staff and create new programs. BY KATHLEEN J. SULLIVAN Richard Saller and Debra Satz addressing the Faculty Senate on Thursday. Holding its Feb. 5 meeting at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, the Faculty Senate gave members the opportunity to visit the newest addition to the university’s growing arts district and to take guided tours of the galleries. “I hope one thing that ge…

…ies. She was the model for Makida III, a large, marble head with unseeing, absent or closed eyes. While her lips and nose are cleanly defined, there are concave, smoothed out spaces where the eyes and ears should be. Neri has applied green and pink paint to accentuate the marble’s natural veins. These washed-out splashes of color adorn her face as if she’s been marked with aboriginal tattoos. From the back, her hair is made into an im…

…view and are accessible to the public for the first time in years; the most recent exhibition of both pieces in the Bay Area was in January 2001. They hang near Franz Kline’s Figure 8 (1952) and adjacent to Left of Center, a student-curated reinstallation of the museum’s permanent collection that explores how geographic location – in this case, the West Coast – can play a role in engendering independent thought, new ideas and the breaking of tra…

Exploring Art through Sound and Motion: Inspired by Nick Cave’s Soundsuits Because Stanford museums are currently closed, Second Sunday will be going virtual! Join the Second Sunday Crew in making and activating wearable sculptures inspired by artist Nick Cave. Museum educators will be presenting Second Sunday Live on July 12, 2020 via Zoom from 11AM-11:30AM PDT. You can download the activity guide prior to the event. Click here to regist…

…86 artists—including paintings by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, and Ellsworth Kelly, to name a few. There are also a number of works that represent movements in California art, including Bay Area Figurative and Light & Space. The collection was assembled over the course of 50 years by Bay Area collectors Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson along with their daughter Patricia Anderson Pence. The…