“The worry isn’t just that we as artists would be replaced by generative AI,” says Ge Wang. “It’s that we might be replaced by something far more generic and far less interesting.”
Comedian Zarna Garg, the rapper Blxst, and Tony-winner David Henry Hwang are just a few of the artists who will share their work with the Stanford community in the coming months.
The interdisciplinary arts and culture leader will oversee programming in Stanford’s arts district and have the opportunity to collaborate with faculty in the department of music and beyond. She joins the Stanford Live team on April 1.
A new partnership between Vaden Health Services and the program Art Pharmacy taps into the power of experiences like taking a poetry workshop or attending a photography exhibit for enhancing student well-being.
“These stories can withstand being turned upside down, torn apart, and reconstructed,” says Stanford Live's Laura Evans on staging this season’s theme of reflection and reinvention. A modern retelling of Frankenstein using shadow puppetry, film, and live music shows this weekend at Bing Concert Hall.
Navajo silversmiths share generations of design expertise
Visiting artists Zefren Anderson and Robert Blackhat Jr. spent two and a half days with Stanford Arts Intensive students this summer, demonstrating cutting-edge technology and techniques honed over thousands of years.
A new exhibition at the Anderson Collection offers a close look at the paintings and prints of one of California’s most important postwar artists and his local connections.
The new curator and assistant director of the Stanford University Archaeology Collections says the pieces in her charge have something to offer all disciplines. “It’s really powerful to be in the presence of objects. The more time you spend with a work of art or artifact, the more it can teach you.”
An exhibition of photographs that document sweeping 20th-century political, social, and artistic movements across Latin America opened this month at the Cantor Arts Center.
Artist Todd McGrain’s bird memorial documenting a changing world can now be seen on the Stanford campus. A companion documentary film screening and musical performance are scheduled for Family Weekend.
Artist-scholar Karishma Bhagani’s graduate repertory play about grief and loss is informed by her research on African and South Asian diaspora storytelling.
Portraits at Cantor bring visibility to trans communities
LJ Roberts’ solo exhibition of embroidered portraits at the Cantor Arts Center illustrates how politics, culture, and identity manifest in visible and subtle ways.
A record number of visual and performing artists from around the world will engage with students and faculty and share their work with the broader community this fall.
“The Faces of Ruth Asawa,” a new long-term installation at the Cantor Arts Center, features hundreds of ceramic masks the San Francisco artist made of friends and family over four decades.
The new public artwork installation by award-winning American sculptor and environmental artist Beverly Pepper is an iteration of an installation in Italy created specifically for the Stanford campus.
Interdisciplinary course applies physical science methods to art conservation
An interdisciplinary course combining art, archaeology, and physics encourages students to look at cultural heritage objects through the lens of science and quantitative reasoning. The instructors hope to inspire careers in art conservation and archaeological science.
Judges considered scientific importance, technical prowess, and artistic merit when selecting the 10 winners of the inaugural Andrew Olson Scientific Image Awards.
Apsáalooke artist Wendy Red Star to deliver McMurtry Lecture
In her solo exhibition American Progress at the Anderson Collection, Red Star explores the costly ramifications of westward expansion on Native Americans.
New course exposes students to the beauty of Japanese functional objects
In a course that debuted in the winter 2022 quarter, students learn about culturally significant Japanese objects and the blurred boundary between aesthetics and practicality.
