ALSO ON VIEW
 Buying
and Selling: Early Modern Economies of Labor, Merchandise, Services, and Shopping
Through June 2
European artists of the 17th and 18th centuries took great interest in
depicting modern life, which included commercial exchange and a rapidly
expanding market of material goods. The 17 prints and drawings in this
exhibition offer views of different types of
workplaces and showcase a range of workers at their tasks, from the
skilled goldsmith to the lowly butcher and rat catcher.
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 Buying
and Selling: Stanford Student Filmmakers on Bay Area Economies
Through June 2
Students in Stanford's graduate program in documentary film have found,
recorded, and presented unheralded true stories in short films and
videos. These films focus on "Buying and Selling" — of people,
resources, and circumstances that may otherwise go unnoticed
in the world of commerce. Selected from many dozens of documentaries
produced over the past decade by Stanford M.F.A. and M.A. students,
these shorts provide a contemporary counterpart to the themes
illustrated in the focused exhibition
Buying and Selling in the adjacent European gallery. Two installments, seven films each.
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 Dotty
Attie: Sometimes a Traveler/There Lived in Egypt
Through June 16
Dotty Attie is known for her reproductions of European Old Master
paintings paired with text—pieces that poetically reveal the voyeuristic
narratives in Western visual and literary arts. Her portfolio Sometimes a Traveler/There Lived in Egypt
calls
particular attention to the exploitation of the North African female
body and its place in European Orientalists' imaginations. Sixteen works
on display.
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Than Fifteen Minutes: Andy Warhol and Celebrity
Through June 30
As a Pop artist trained in advertising, Andy Warhol was obsessed with
fame and the media. This exhibition features prints, drawings, and
Polaroid photographs of Marilyn Monroe, Mao Tse Tung, Mick Jagger, and
other contemporary icons, exploring ideas about fame,
ephemerality, and the legacy of Andy Warhol. Approximately 24 works on
display.
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Royal Renaissance: School of Fontainebleau Prints from the Kirk Edward Long Collection
Through July 14
After suffering military defeat at the hands of the Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V, King Francois I of France returned to his realm in 1526,
determined to triumph in matters of culture. He began by commissioning
esteemed Italian artists to transform his medieval
hunting lodge at Fontainebleau into a showcase royal residence. Other
artists made engravings and etchings that recorded the multimedia
ensembles reflecting the new "Fontainebleau" style. More than 30 of
these works have been selected from the collection of
Kirk Edward Long to illustrate the sophistication and extravagance of
this courtly style.
Learn more
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 Border
Crossings: From Imperial to Popular Life
Through August 4
How are the boundaries between social classes and identities challenged
and transcended? This exhibition explores that question by considering
art production in China and Japan during the last three hundred years.
After recent research and reevaluation, two
sets of 18th-century Chinese paintings from the collection have been
rescued from obscurity and are now on view here for the first time.
These works demonstrate how artisans outside palace walls reproduced the
subjects and styles of imperial paintings in order
to satisfy the demands of a rising social class. In addition, the
exhibition features Japanese woodblock prints of civil life, urban
scenes and coveted fashions of the “floating world”—images that existed
despite the ruling shogunate’s regimentation. Forty-four
works on display.
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 Wood,
Metal, Paint: Sculpture from the Fisher Collection
Through August 2013
This installation includes pieces by Martin Puryear, Sol LeWitt, Claes
Oldenburg, Carl Andre, and John Chamberlain. The six works on display
are especially significant because they serve as examples of the
innovations that established the reputations of these
artists.
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 Sequence
at Stanford
Ongoing
Richard Serra's Sequence is on loan from the Doris and Don
Fisher Collection for five years. Its location at the Cantor finally
gives viewers the chance to encounter
Sequence in the open air, as Serra intended. Entrance to Sequence is via the Cantor building; it is accessible during museum hours.
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EVENTS
See
all events listed online. Events are free and are held in the Cantor Arts Center auditorium unless otherwise noted.
FAMILY EVENTS: learn more about free
family events
Every Sunday:
Docent-Led
Family Tours and Drop-In
Art Making
Special 30-minute tours depart from "The Thinker" in the Rodin rotunda every Sunday at 12:30, 1, and 1:30 pm.
Artworks chosen for the tour become inspiration for drop-in art-making in the Moorman Studio.
Due to popularity, sessions are limited to 30 minutes, as space permits. Free and open to all families.
Daily:
Art
packs: Young artists can check out art kits stocked with colored
pencils and sketch paper and spend time in our galleries drawing.
Children then return the kits when they are finished and take their work
home.
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TOURS: learn more about
tours; all tours meet in the main lobby unless otherwise noted.
• Through June 16: Revisiting the South: Richard Misrach’s Cancer Alley, Thursdays 12:15 pm, Saturdays and Sundays 2 pm
• Introduction to the Cantor Arts Center, Saturdays and Sundays at 1 pm
• Outdoor Sculpture Walk, April 7 at 2 pm, meet at the Main Quad, by top of Oval
• Contemporary Art, April 13 at 3 pm
• Outdoor Sculpture around the Museum, April 21 at 11:30 am
• Rodin Sculpture Garden and Galleries, Wednesdays at 2 pm, Saturdays at 11:30 am, Sundays at 3 pm, rain or shine
• Memorial Church, Fridays at 2 pm, rain or shine. Meet at the church entrance
• Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden, April 21, 2 pm, rain or shine. Meet on the corner of Santa Teresa and Lomita Drive
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Images, top to bottom:
Richard Misrach, Night Fishing, Near Bonnet Carré Spillway, Norco, Louisiana, negative 1998, print 2012. Inkjet print. High Museum of Art, Atlanta © 2012 Richard Misrach.
Lee Friedlander, Cray at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, 1986. Gelatin silver
print. Gift of Michael J. Levinthal, Cantor Arts Center, 2012.224.1. ©
Lee Friedlander, courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
Félix Bonfils, Ascent of the Great Pyramid, 19th century, albumen print. Gift of Joseph Folberg, 1994.68.56.
Gertrude Stanton Kasebier, Happy Days, 1905. Photogravure. Gift of Graham Nash, 1978.234.23.
Artist Unknown, Coffee Vendor, 18th century, pen and ink with watercolor on paper. Museum Purchase Fund, 1969.200.
Ryan Malloy (Stanford M.F.A. Class of 2011), Plasticity (still), 2010.
Dotty Attie, Portfolio for "Sometimes a Traveler/There Lived in Egypt,"
1995. By exchange with The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, for a gift from David Gilhooly, 1998.455.20.
Andy Warhol, Liz, 1964. Offset lithograph. Lent by The Marmor
Foundation. © 2012 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. /
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
René Boyvin, Enlightenment of François I, 1550-55. Engraving. Cantor Arts Center, Lent by Kirk Edward Long.
Artist unknown (China, Qing Dynasty 1644-1912), Ten Beauties (detail), late 18th century. Ink and color on silk. Stanford Museum Collections, 2012.581.
Carl Andre, Copper-Zinc Plain, 1969. Copper and zinc. Loan courtesy the Fisher Family.
Richard Serra, Sequence, 2006. Photo: Linda A. Cicero / Stanford News.
Family at a reception.
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Revisiting
the South: Richard Misrach’s Cancer Alley
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Friedlander: The Cray Photographs
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Africa and the Holy Land in 19th-Century Photographs
Hauntings:
American Photographs, 1845–1970