Wednesday, June 18, 2014

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Within and Without: Transformations in Chinese Landscapes

Cantor Arts Center11am-5pm, Thurs until 8pm

Closed Mon & Tues through 9/21, then only closed Tues. The landscape, the most prominent painting tradition in China, brings with it more than…

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Inside Rodin's Hands: Art, Technology, and Surgery

Cantor Arts Center11am-5pm, Thurs. until 8pm

Closed Monday & Tuesday. Dr. James Chang, an internationally renowned hand reconstruction surgeon at Stanford, has long been fascinated by Rodin’s…

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Artists Observe Nature, 1600-1800

Cantor Arts Center11am-8pm

Closed MON & TUES through 9/21, then only closed TUES. After 1600, it became increasingly common for draftsmen and printmakers to study nature…

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Carleton Watkins: The Stanford Albums

Cantor Arts Center11 am-5pm, Thurs until 8 pm

Closed Monday and Tuesday. This exhibition of 83 photographic prints by Carleton Watkins—perhaps America's most influential 19th-century landscape…

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Mapping Edo: The Social and Political Geography of Early Modern Japan

Cantor Arts Center11am-5pm, Thurs ’til 8pm

Closed Monday and Tuesday. Experience Edo-period Japan (1615–1868) through archival maps, prints, and paintings of the capital and surrounding…

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Night, Smoke, and Shadows: The Presence of Atmosphere in the 19th Century

Cantor Arts Center11am-5pm, Thurs ’til 8pm

Closed Mon & Tues through 9/21, then only closed TUES. Many artists active in the 19th century manipulated the appearance of atmosphere in…

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Flower Power

Cantor Arts Center11 am-5pm, Thurs until 8 pm

Nine sensational works by five important artists--Andy Warhol, Donald Sultan, Alex Katz, Willie Cole, and Tom Wesselmann--focus on flowers,…

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American Photographs: A Cultural History

Cantor Arts Center11am-5pm, Thurs until 8pm

OPEN JULY 4, 11 am - 5 pm. Closed Mon and Tues. Alexander Nemerov, the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor of Arts and Humanities,…

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Aaron Sorkin's The Farnsworth Invention

Lucie Stern Theatre & Community Center8:00 pm

Who doesn't love television? Like that fan favorite "The West Wing"? Or if movies are more your style, did you enjoy the Oscar-winning film…

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Deborah Rodriguez, author of "The Kabul Beauty School" & "Margarita Wednesdays: Making a New Life by the Mexican Sea"

Oshman Family JCC7:00 p.m. Program; 8:00 p.m. Book Signing and Margarita Social

Rodriguez spent five years with the Kabul Beauty School, the first modern beauty academy and training salon in Afghanistan. In 2007 she was…

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KEVIN FISHER-PAULSON at Books Inc. Palo Alto

Books Inc. - Palo Alto7:00 PM

San Francisco Sheriff's Captain Kevin Fisher-Paulson shares his touching take on what makes a family, and what keeps families thriving, with…

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Art Excel Course (age 8-13)

St. Mark's Episcopal Church4 - 7 PM

Does your child: - Have tools to manage negative emotions in constructive ways? - Feel confident in any situation? - Focus easily on the task…

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Night, Smoke, and Shadows: The Presence of Atmosphere in the 19th Century

Cantor Arts Center11am-8pm

Many artists active in the 19th century manipulated the appearance of atmosphere in order to create the illusion of space and texture, imply…

650-723-4177

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