Organization

Expanding Views of Africa - Exhibition

Presented by Cantor Arts Center at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

August 3, 2011-December 30, 2012

The arts of Africa date from the beginning of humanity to the present and express universal and timeless ideas. The newly reinstalled African art galleries feature more than 200 objects and are designed to expand conventional ways of considering African art and culture. The galleries offer historical depth, geographic and chronological...

Memory and Markets... Pueblo Painting in the Early 20th Century - Exhibition

Presented by Cantor Arts Center at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

February 22-May 27, 2012

In the early 20th century, a new movement of Native American painting emerged in the Pueblo communities of the Southwestern United States. Encouraged by local anthropologists and teachers to record past and current scenes of their daily life on paper, the artists found inspiration in the centuries-old tradition of Pueblo painting found in...

Wood, Metal, Paint - Sculpture from the Fisher Collection

Presented by Cantor Arts Center at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

February 29, 2012-October 13, 2013

Wood, Metal, Paint - Sculpture from the Fisher Collection includes pieces by John Chamberlain, Sol LeWitt Claes Oldenburg and Martin Puryear, together with Carl Andre's Copper-Zinc Plain, a floor piece comprised of 36 tiles, and John Chamberlain's Bijou, a large early work made of crushed automobiles and paint. The works on display are...

Light Works... Dan Flavin and Robert Irwin - Exhibition

Presented by Cantor Arts Center at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

March 21-July 8, 2012

Beginning in the 1920s, with the work of the Constructivists, electric light became a medium for art. With the advent of Minimalism in the late 1960s, artists found that using light as a medium could challenge perception and be impersonal as well as emotionally engaging. This installation features two large pieces.

One by Dan...

Cantor Arts Center Public Tours

Presented by Cantor Arts Center at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

April 3, 2012-December 31, 2013

Free, public tours are offered many times throughout the week at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center. Tours meet in the main lobby unless otherwise specified. Every tour is different. Also, groups may take self-guided tours. 

Introduction to the Cantor Arts Center
This introductory tour features objects from a...

Surviving Paradise... The Art of Enrique Chagoya - Art Focus Lecture

Presented by Cantor Arts Center at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

May 10, 2012

Drawing from his experiences living on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border and in Europe, Enrique Chagoya juxtaposes secular, popular, and religious symbols to address the ongoing cultural clash between the United States, Latin America, and the world. He uses familiar pop icons to create deceptively friendly points of entry for the discussion...

Voices in the Gallery... Putting Art into Words - Readings and Discussions

Presented by Cantor Arts Center at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

April 26, 2012

Art museums are "imaginative precincts" in which writers contemplate the vibrant silence of color, line, and form to find new subjects and to awaken the words, rhythms, sound, and syntax of their own linguistic medium. Voices in the Gallery invites Stanford students to explore the creative alchemy between the verbal and visual arts by...

Jazz at the Cantor Arts Center - Lecture and Demonstration

Presented by Cantor Arts Center and Stanford Lively Arts at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

April 4, 2012

This lunchtime jazz lecture and demonstration, featuring Loren Schoenberg, director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, highlights the rich cross-fertilization between American jazz and music from Latin America and the Caribbean. The program is supported in part by the Joan and John Jay Corley Fund for Performance.

Rafael Campo, Poet - Lecture and Reading

Presented by Cantor Arts Center and Stanford Humanities Center at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

March 1, 2012

The Harvard Medical School physician, award-winning poet, and current writer-in-residence at the Stanford Humanities Center will read from his work. Co-sponsored with the Arts, Humanities, and Medicine Program at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and supported by a grant from the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - Book Discussion

Presented by Cantor Arts Center at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

February 25, 2012

Gavin Jones, chair of Stanford's English department and author of American Hungers, leads a discussion on the landmark collaboration of James Agee and Walker Evans in documenting Depression-era tenant farming in rural Alabama. Acquaintance with the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is requested. This event is presented in conjunction with the...