Under the guest direction of Tony Award-winner Dominique Serrand, Stanford cast and crew explore age-old themes from a 17th-century Spanish play while incorporating modern questions of gender and ambiguity.
The longtime friend of the university welcomed Stanford graduate students to study the art in his home and office, and then he and his family made the collection accessible to the world through a transformative gift.
In a slideshow, university photographer Linda A. Cicero captured the Jan. 25 master class for students with L.A. Dance Project’s David Adrian Freeland Jr.
Stanford creates opportunities for meaningful engagement with the arts for students and the university community through an extensive guest artists program.
The Anderson Collection and the Cantor Arts Center are open during the winter break except on Christmas Day, with special holiday hours on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve only.
Artist and lecturer Pamela Davis Kivelson created a participatory performance piece with violinist and scientist Lucy Liuxuan Zhang and Stanford postdoctoral scholar Xiaohan Zhang.
A joint exhibition at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives and the Cantor Arts Center highlights Stanford’s rich collections of materials on the history of late imperial and early Soviet Russia.
Stanford creates opportunities for meaningful engagement with the arts for students and the university community by inviting over 100 artists each year to campus to create, perform and discuss their work.
Pedro de Lemos was the first curator of the Stanford Art Gallery, which is celebrating its centennial this year. An exhibition honoring de Lemos’ leadership and art is scheduled to begin in October.
The Cantor Arts Center is celebrating the centenary of Auguste Rodin’s death with a new exhibition of the French sculptor’s extraordinary work. The exhibition opens Sept. 15.
For their final project, Dance Improv Strategies Lab students chose any area in or around the Anderson Collection at Stanford University and created a performance to work in tandem with the modern art museum.
Items from the Pacific region gathered by Jane Stanford and Stanford faculty are on display as part of a new exhibition at the Stanford Archaeology Center.
The Anderson Collection accepted 13 gifts of art into the museum’s permanent collection this academic year, the first acquisitions since the museum opened in 2014.
The baton passes to Paul Phillips, director of orchestras and chamber music and distinguished senior lecturer in music at Brown University. He joins the Department of Music on July 1.
The three years of research Wanda Corn conducted to produce her exhibition and book, Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern, was underwritten by an Andrew W. Mellon Emeritus Fellowship administered by Stanford’s Department of Art and Art History.
Speakers at the May 25 meeting included special guest Jonathan R. Cole, a professor at Columbia University; Harry J. Elam, Jr., vice president for the arts; Alexander Nemerov, chair of art and art history; and Stephen Sano, professor (teaching) of music.
Alex Ketley's film documents his research about the role dance plays in rural life and challenges the "urban/rural prejudice" commonly found in urban environments.
