What's Coming Up at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford?

PALO ALTO, CA – Announcement from the Cantor Arts Center, located on the Stanford University campus, off Palm Drive at Museum Way. Admission is always free:

NEW MAJOR EXHIBITIONS

The Conjured Life: The Legacy of Surrealism

• December 21, 2016 through April 3, 2017

Featuring dozens of works dating from the 1920s to the present day, this exhibition demonstrates the deep currents Surrealism sent through the international art world beginning in the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition reveals this movement’s enduring grip on the imaginations of artists in the United States and around the world. On view in the Pigott Family Gallery.

Creativity on the Line: Design and the Corporate World, 1950–1975

• April 26 through August 21, 2017

This groundbreaking exhibition presents a fascinating new perspective on the creation and production of mid-century modern design by such major American figures as Eliot Noyes and Paul Rand (for IBM and Westinghouse), Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson (for Herman Miller), Ivan Chermayeff (for Mobil Oil), and Will Burtin (for Upjohn). Also included are a number of major European producers of well-designed objects, such as Ettore Sottsass and Marcello Nizzoli (for Olivetti), and Dieter Rams (for Braun). On view in the Pigott Family Gallery.

CONTINUING MAJOR EXHIBITION

The Wonder of Everyday Life: Dutch Golden Age Prints

• On view through March 20, 2017

While the Dutch Republic experienced unprecedented economic prosperity in the 17th century, printmakers were exceptionally sensitive—and sometimes obsessive—when rendering the details of everyday life. The prints in this installation explore how Rembrandt van Rijn and his peers depicted the sensual experience of the material world, contemplated life’s constantly changing nature, and navigated spirituality’s role in modern life. On view in the Cantor Arts Center’s Ruth Levison Halperin Gallery.

Related Program Gallery Talk:

• Saturday, January 21, 12:30 pm and Saturday, February 25, 12:30 pm

Ruth Levison Halperin Gallery
Elizabeth Mitchell, the Cantor’s Burton and Deedee McMurtry Curator of Drawings, Prints, and Photographs, discusses The Wonder of Everyday Life: Dutch Golden Age Prints.

NEW FOCUSED EXHIBITIONS

Warhol Unframed

January 18–May 1, 2017

The Cantor’s curricular exhibition series continues this winter with an installation of warhol works selected from the Cantor’s collection. Organized in close collaboration with faculty members Richard Meyer, Robert and Ruth halperin Professor of Art history, and Peggy Phelan, the Denning Family Chair and Director, Stanford Arts institute and Professor of theater & Performance Studies and English, the exhibition complements their winter Quarter class, Warhol: Painting, Photography, Performance, and will serve as a resource to their students throughout the quarter. On view in the Rowland K. Rebele Gallery.

A Mushroom Perspective on Sacred Geography

February 8–May 15, 2107

In East Asian cultures, the lingzhi mushroom was believed to be a spiritual organism that thrived only at sacred sites. Drawing from the Cantor’s rich collection of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean art, A Mushroom Perspective on Sacred Geography brings together a wide variety of objects (painting, ceramic, jade, lacquer, and works on paper) to examine the dynamic interconnections between humans, natural organisms, and sacred landscapes. the exhibition, curated by Phoenix Yu-chuan Chen, a PhD candidate in the Department of Art & Art history, ultimately urges us to consider our own longstanding and ongoing relationship with nature. On view in the Lynn Krywick Gibbons Gallery.

In Context: Trevor Paglen

March 15–July 31, 2017

In Context, a new exhibition series, spotlights recent museum acquisitions and explores their significance in relation to the Cantor’s existing collection. The first installation in this series positions contemporary photographer Trevor Paglen’s 2010 work Time Study (Predator; Indian Springs, NV) alongside the work of seminal 19th-century artist Eadweard Muybridge. Paglen’s haunting images engage with the grand tradition of late19th- and early 20th-century American landscape photography, raising and responding to questions about technologically mediated visual perception. On view in the Patricia S. Rebele Gallery.

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