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Jay Edgar on January 12, 2022
The early ’70s was such a pivotal moment in the fine arts, with both the radicalism of 1968 and emerging technologies creating tectonic changes in what was considered, and who created, visual arts. Mixed-media artist Bruce Nauman captured the moment well by utilizing the pop art medium of silkscreening to capture the…
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Kyle Martin on September 29, 2021
Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell, curator for Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center, has put together a decade-spanning collection of pieces from the museum which all use paper as the medium. Prints, drawings, photographs, sketches and more. This new temporary retrospective collection includes more than 100 works from artists all around the world, including American photographer…
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Tad Malone on December 27, 2017
To celebrate its ever-growing collection, the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University is highlighting its extensive Modern and Contemporary art galleries in the last two weeks of the year. The “Modern and Contemporary” art exhibit will feature a plethora of early- to late-20th century art with an emphasis Bay Area artists—as well…
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This evening, the rarely screened and highly acclaimed documentary on the Rolling Stones, Cocksucker Blues, will be screened at Stanford University, as part of the Cantor Arts Center exhibit, Robert Frank in America. And you can check it out for free. The documentary, directed and shot by American street photography icon, Robert Frank, was filmed…
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