Saturday, May 21, 2016

Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine

Cantor Arts CenterOpen Wed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY.

One hundred years ago, the photographer Lewis Hine travelled to mills and factories in New England and the South, photographing child laborers.…

Family Sundays at the Cantor Arts Center

Cantor Arts Center12:30-3:00 pm

There will be no Family Sunday on October 2 in preparation for new Second Sundays beginning October 9, 2016. Bring art alive for your family!…

Figuration/Abstraction: Highlights from the Collection

Cantor Arts CenterOpen Wed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY.

One of the questions posed by "Figuration/Abstraction" is this: "Isn’t all art an abstraction of what it represents, to a greater or lesser…

Edward Hopper: New York Corner

Cantor Arts Center11AM-5PM, closed Tuesdays

Edward Hopper pioneered an American impressionism that captured the essence of streetside life in New York City during the early 20th century.…

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Into the Forest: Landscape as Subject and Studio in 19th-Century France

Cantor Arts Center11am-5pm Wed-Mon, Thurs until 8pm. CLOSED TUESDAY

This installation of prints, drawings, and photographs explores how French artists depicted the landscape in the modern age and approached making…

Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed

Cantor Arts Center11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY

This exhibition presents the sketchbooks of celebrated 20th-century painter Richard Diebenkorn—Stanford’s most accomplished and recognized…

Showing Off: Identity and Display in Asian Costume

Cantor Arts CenterOpen Wed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY.

Fashion is a form of language. What we wear broadcasts critical information about us and serves as a visible indicator of social rank, profession,…

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Multiplicity: Portraiture in the Cantor's Photography Collection

Cantor Arts CenterOpen Wed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thurs until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY.

Using multi-image formats to represent the mutability of psychological states, social status, and public personae, the photographic works in…

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Madama Butterfly

Lucie Stern Theatre & Community CenterMay 20, 22, 25, 28, 29; Fri, Sat: 8pm; Wed: 7:30pm; Sun: 2pm

Giacomo Puccini took too long to write this opera, giving his company too little time to rehearse and culminating in a disastrous premiere.…

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Intimate Frontiers: The Male Gaze in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna

Cantor Arts Center11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY

"Intimate Frontiers" is a new exhibition that explores the social and domestic world of women through the eyes of prominent male artists in…

Grammy nominated vocalist Suzanne Vega in Palo Alto

Oshman Family Jewish Community Center7:30 PM

The Oshman Family JCC presents internationally acclaimed singer song writer Suzanne Vega at the one-night-only Arts Bravura Benefit Concert…

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Grammy nominated vocalist Suzanne Vega in Palo Alto

Oshman Family Jewish Community Center7:30 PM

The Oshman Family JCC presents internationally acclaimed singer song writer Suzanne Vega at the one-night-only Arts Bravura Benefit Concert…

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Beyond the Frame: Curating in Context

Cantor Arts CenterOpen Wed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY.

This self-guided, walking exhibition encourages viewers to think actively about the settings in which they experience particular works of art…

Blood in the Sugar Bowl

Cantor Arts CenterWed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thurs until 8pm, CLOSED TUESDAY

This exhibition focuses on sugar plantation slavery during the peak of the sugar trade, the late 18th–mid-19th century. On display are sugar…

The Wonder of Everyday Life: Dutch Golden Age Prints

Cantor Arts CenterOpen Wed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY.

While the Dutch Republic experienced unprecedented economic prosperity in the 17th century, printmakers were exceptionally sensitive—and sometimes…

Who We Be

Cantor Arts CenterWed-Sun 11AM-5PM, Thur to 8 PM, Closed Tues

This exhibition takes a close examination of visual culture--particularly images, works, and ideas in the contemporary arts, justice movements,…

Contemporary Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Cantor Arts CenterOpen Wed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY.

Indigenous undergraduates Sarah Sadlier and Isabella Shey Robbins will lead a fall, student-initiated course that will yield an exhibition designed…

An Oasis in Glass

Cantor Arts CenterOpen Wed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY.

This exhibition showcases 4th-century mosaics, beads, flasks, and other glass objects created during the Roman occupation of Syria and Egypt.…

Myth, Allegory, and Faith: The Kirk Edward Long Collection of Mannerist Prints

Cantor Arts Center11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY

Selected from the Kirk Edward Long collection of 16th-century prints, this exhibition illuminates the development of the Mannerist style in…

Showing Off: Identity and Display in Asian Costume

Cantor Arts CenterOpen Wed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY.

Fashion is a form of language. What we wear broadcasts critical information about us and serves as a visible indicator of social rank, profession,…

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