Arts & Creativity

News articles classified as Arts & Creativity

June 26, 2015

Award-winning authors to discuss writing about war at Stanford Live event

Poet Natasha Trethewey and fiction writer Phil Klay will read selections from their works and join Stanford political scientist Scott Sagan in conversation on June 30 at Bing Concert Hall.

June 26, 2015

Stanford art and art history faculty, staff making plans for the McMurtry Building

Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the new interdisciplinary arts hub is expected to house a hive of activity.

June 9, 2015

Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center acquires Edward Hopper painting

"New York Corner," 1913, finds a new home at Stanford University.

June 4, 2015

Stanford student group reshapes music-making hierarchy

Twenty-four musicians experiment with collaborative leadership in their new conductorless ensemble, SCOr.

May 27, 2015

Eva Perón is reimagined on the Stanford stage

Students perform the musical Evita while artifacts from Hoover's Juan Domingo Perón papers, Eva memorabilia and contemporary video interviews of Porteños are featured in a companion exhibition.

May 18, 2015

TEDxStanford presenters describe turning points and opportunities

The fourth annual TEDxStanford conference was a rich experience for everyone.

May 15, 2015

Stanford music scholar redefines the jazz and cabaret culture of 1920s Harlem

Musicologist Nate Sloan's investigation of Harlem Renaissance jazz portrays a diverse, multisensory experience where music, place and race influenced each other in profound and lasting ways.

May 14, 2015

Stanford Repertory Theater explores the ethics of science with Brecht’s Life of Galileo

Do scientists have an ethical responsibility to serve the greater good? In two free performances on May 15 and 16, Stanford students, professors and professional actors will present Bertolt Brecht's masterful exploration of the roles of commerce, politics and religion in shaping the future of scientific research.

May 13, 2015

Stanford students celebrate release of graphic novel American Heathen

Students researched, wrote and illustrated the work about Wong Chin Foo, an advocate for Chinese immigrants in 19th-century America.

May 11, 2015

Stanford literary scholar: White whales and the ‘Melville Effect’

With a resurgence of Melville-themed art across the multimedia landscape, Stanford Humanities Center Fellow Joseph Boone says the legendary writer has become a 21st-century muse for artists – including Boone himself.

May 4, 2015

Stanford Emerging String Quartet Program musicians find an audience behind bars

The St. Lawrence String Quartet, the university's ensemble-in-residence, cultivates a culture of community outreach.

May 4, 2015

Digitization and inventory project at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center nears the finish line

Thousands of art objects say cheese for the camera during five-year effort.

April 24, 2015

Stanford Live expands its mission with 2015-16 season

Next year's Stanford Live season will feature three events with Anna Deavere Smith and a new work by Stanford composer Jonathan Berger for the Kronos Quartet. Other highlights include appearances by Chick Corea and Béla Fleck, Bernadette Peters, Arlo Guthrie and scratch DJ Kid Koala.

April 16, 2015

Stanford Dance Division brings documentary about dancing with Parkinson’s to campus

Stanford faculty and students explore approaching Parkinson's disease with intentional movement. Screening of documentary Capturing Grace by a Stanford alumnus is the centerpiece of two days of events during Parkinson's Awareness Month.

April 14, 2015

Stanford art history scholar explores nature and culture in frost and forests

George Philip LeBourdais, a doctoral student in Stanford's Department of Art & Art History, applies his research on Arctic artistry and ecology to curate an exhibition on how trees inform human judgment and imagination. The exhibition opens April 15 at the Cantor Arts Center.

April 10, 2015

Stanford undergrads explore the power of storytelling with audio documentaries

From orphans in Ghana to drag queens in San Francisco – Stanford students in a storytelling program have learned about communities, events and traditions both foreign and familiar. In April the latest audio documentaries will be aired on campus radio station KZSU and released online on the Stanford Storytelling website.

April 9, 2015

First student cohort chosen for Stanford in New York

Students selected for the new program, which Stanford will launch in the fall of the 2015-16 academic year, will live, work as interns and study in New York City for one academic quarter.

April 9, 2015

Stanford students perform Hairspray

A Stanford student-run theatrical society explores racial integration – then and now – against the background of an inventive LED set in the musical Hairspray. The performance aims to spark civil rights dialogue for students and the audience.

March 30, 2015

Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center presents solo exhibition of Jacob Lawrence’s work, Promised Land

Stanford students are the first scholars to study and present some of the works that have never been on public display.

March 10, 2015

Research and performance join in Stanford scholar’s study of interwar music

Through a study of the relationship between music and dance in ballets produced between the two world wars, Stanford graduate student and conductor Anna Wittstruck illustrates how composers sought to bring audiences together.  

March 9, 2015

Stanford performance reimagines computer demonstration in multimedia work

The Demo, which will be performed at Bing Concert Hall in April, examines the life and work of tech visionary Douglas Engelbart. Several free events in March and April will complement the performance.

March 5, 2015

Students and professionals join in the recording studio at Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall

The St. Lawrence String Quartet and the Stanford Chamber Chorale prepare for the release of their performance of Joseph Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass.

February 25, 2015

Stanford students discover an early music treasure

Music lecturer and students edit and finish an incomplete manuscript by Francesco Durante for a modern-day première in Memorial Church.

February 6, 2015

Senate visits the arts district to discuss the humanities

Richard Saller, dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Debra Satz, senior associate dean for the humanities and arts, talked about the state of the humanities at Stanford. Jason Linetzky, director of the Anderson Collection, invited faculty members to collaborate with its staff and create new programs.

February 4, 2015

For Stanford Symphony Orchestra, The Planets align

Stanford Symphony Orchestra blends sight and sound with a production of Gustav Holst's The Planets at Bing Concert Hall. The production  is part of Imagining the Universe, a collaborative year-long project of the Stanford Arts Institute.

February 1, 2015

Exploring how hip-hop culture transforms young lives

As a Stanford senior, Kareem Alston learned specialized techniques used in social science research to prepare for – and conduct – an interview with the leader of an organization dedicated to building a more just and joyful world through the arts.

January 28, 2015

What would you ask Tony Award-winning choreographer Bill T. Jones?

Jones and his dance company perform on campus and the choreographer carves out time to engage with students in writing before his visit and in person once he arrives.

January 27, 2015

Stanford’s ‘Live Context’ series explores art and its ideas

Leveraging the university’s deep intellectual and artistic resources, "Live Context" is inspired by the conviction that the more you know about a work of art's historical and contemporary resonance the richer your experience.

January 8, 2015

Stanford students illustrate public online ‘Adventures in Writing’ class

Veteran writing instructors and undergraduate student artists teamed up to create a new public online course focused on teaching key strategies for effective writing.

October 6, 2014

Memorial service and reception for Henry S. Breitrose scheduled Nov. 18

Colleagues described Breitrose, who taught the history of film and film aesthetics at Stanford for more than five decades, as a man “absolutely in love” with film.