All exhibitions and programs listed here have free admission.  The  
museum is closed Thanksgiving Day and Dec. 23-25.  Publicity images  
are at http://www.stanford.edu/dept/suma/news_room/documents/photos/

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
October - November 2009
    New Exhibitions
    Continuing Exhibitions
    Programs and Events
    Gallery Changes
    Ongoing from the Collection
    Visitor Information

NEW EXHIBITIONS


Longing for Sea Change
October 7, 2009 through June 26, 2011
Cantor Arts Center presents a series of video installations by  
contemporary artists living and working in Africa and the diasporas.   
Emotionally stirring and symbolic, the visual narratives address broad  
issues of humanity in moments of upheaval, fragmentation, and  
transition.  The works are also deeply personal, with a longing for  
transformation and the desire to belong.  The series begins with  
Spirit of ’76 (6 minutes, 24 seconds), made by South African Berni  
Searle in 2007, on view through January 10, 2010.  Other video  
installations follow through June 26, 2011.


Frank Lobdell Figure Drawings
November 11 - February 21, 2010
An exhibition of approximately 60 figure drawings in ink, pencil,  
crayon, and wash from Lobdell's weekly drawing sessions in the 1960s  
and 1970s, which he used as a springboard to develop his vocabulary of  
abstraction.
Press release: http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/LobdellFigureDrawings.html

CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS
	

 From Their Studios
September 16, 2009 - January 3, 2010
This exhibition showcases the work of 13 current studio art faculty at  
Stanford.  Some work is in traditional media such as oil on canvas or  
straight photography.  Other art media have been filtered through  
modern technology, displayed as digitally scanned or computer-assisted  
photographic prints, custom-shaped canvases, video footage in  
sculpture, or mechanical projection devices that defy description.
Press release: http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/FromTheirStudios.html
Artists' Lectures:  Thursdays at 7 pm through December 3 (excluding  
Nov. 26) plus Wednesday, October 14 (7 pm) and Sunday, November 8 (2  
pm).  Filmmakers' lectures are preceded by a screening of one of their  
films at 6 pm.  Details: http://museum.stanford.edu/participate/programs_events_lectures_symposia.html
Short documentary films by three of the artists run continuously in an  
upstairs gallery during visitor hours.


	  From the Bronze Age of China to Japan's Floating World
On view through October 18, 2009
This exhibition presents Chinese and Japanese works of art from the  
second millennium BCE to the 20th century -- all have been added to  
the Asian art collection at the Cantor Arts Center  in the past  
decade.  Highlights include ritual bronzes from central China, as well  
as prints depicting urban life from Edo period Japan.
Press release:  http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/bronze_age.html


The Metaphysics of Notation
On view through February, 2010
This visual and musical performance art piece, composed by Mark  
Applebaum, features densely arranged pictographs on display  
continuously, with an interpretive performance by various musicians  
each Friday.  The score is installed along the balcony overlooking the  
lobby and in the adjoining gallery.
Performances noon on Fridays through Feb. 2010 (No performance Friday,  
January 1)
Press release: http://museum.stanford.edu/participate/programs_events_faculty_choice.html


Contemporary Glass
Extended to August 2010
This exhibition has been revised and extended for one year, now  
presenting works by Dale Chihuly, Matt Eskuche, Harvey K. Littleton,  
Dante Marioni, Richard Marquis, Klaus Moje, Benjamin Moore, William  
Morris, Ginny Ruffner, Laura de Santillana, Lino Tagliapietra, and  
Mary Ann (Toots) Zynsky.
More info:  http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/Cont_Glass.html

PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
Every Friday - Experimental Music Series
"The Metaphysics of Notation" performances continue Fridays through  
Feb. 26, 2010 (No performance Friday, January 1)  Presented Fridays  
between noon and 1 pm, Free
A list of performers:  http://museum.stanford.edu/participate/programs_events_performing_arts.html

 From Their Studios Artists' Lecture Series
Thursdays through Dec. 3 (excluding Thanksgiving), 7 pm; plus  
Wednesday, October 14 (7 pm) and Sunday, November 8 (2 pm); Cantor  
Arts Center auditorium; Free
Stanford faculty artists talk about their work; filmmaker's lectures  
are preceded by a screening of one of their films at 6 pm.  Details: http://museum.stanford.edu/participate/programs_events_lectures_symposia.html

Lecture-Demonstration: How to Listen
"Miles Davis and Electric Jazz," a lecture-demonstration by Loren  
Schoenberg, director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, featuring  
guest musician Adam Benjamin.
Wednesday, October 14, noon - 1 pm, Free, Cantor Arts Center auditorium
Information: http://museum.stanford.edu/participate/programs_events_performing_arts.html

GALLERY CHANGES
Most of the Center's 24 galleries present works from the collection  
plus loans.  In addition to temporary exhibitions, listed above, works  
in 18 collection galleries change on a regular basis, especially works  
on paper, which are susceptible to damage from light.  Each collection  
gallery is dedicated to a different era or type of art.  Together the  
galleries span the history of art from ancient China to the 21st  
century.  For the latest changes visit http://museum.stanford.edu/view/rotations.html

October 14, 2009 - spring 2010
Honoring Lorenz Eitner in two galleries
Works on paper acquired during the tenure of the museum's former  
director, Lorenz Eitner, include prints and drawings of 18th-century  
Venice and a painting by Théodore Gericault.

November 18, 2009 - April, 2010
Art and Invention in the early modern gallery
Photographs depicting scenes of labor and industrialization set in  
Europe and America during the first half of the 20th century.  Artists  
include Lewis Hine and Peter Stackpole.  Also on view are loans of  
German expressionist works and paintings by Hungarian artists.

On view through October 4, 2009
Attitudes Toward Nature in the early European gallery
Includes a print by Rembrandt and a drawing by Anthonie Waterloo.

On view through October 4, 2009
An Eye on Nature in the 19th-century gallery
Featuring a print by Henri Rivière and a drawing by William Keith.

On view through November 8, 2009
Portraits and Prints in the early modern gallery
Groupings of American portraits, plus prints from Atelier 17, a  
printmaking workshop established by Stanley William Hayter.

On view through November 15, 2009
Works by Robert Motherwell in the contemporary art gallery
Eleven works by the American Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell  
(1915-1991), a graduate of Stanford University in 1936, who focused on  
the energy and emotion in art-making.  This selection includes loans  
from the Marmor Collection in addition to works from the collection.

On view through November 15, 2009
Drive-by Shooting: Photographs by Robert Frank in the contemporary art  
gallery
After emigrating from Switzerland in 1947, Robert Frank (b. 1924)  
documented his travels throughout the U.S. With a camera and old car,  
Frank began a solitary road trip shooting photos  from coast to  
coast.  His black and white photographs of ordinary objects and city  
scenes encapsulate a sense of loneliness and banality, reflecting  
Frank's personal experience with American life and landscape.  This  
display of 14 works features examples from The Americans, Frank's most  
celebrated body of work.

On view through March 21, 2010
California Baskets in the Native American art gallery
A new selection of 19th- and 20th-century baskets.

On view through April, 2010
A Legacy in Teaching in the Patricia S. Rebele Gallery
A display of paintings from the Center's collection by Stanford art  
faculty of the past. Featuring works by Daniel Mendelowitz mid-July -  
November 8; and Henry Varnum Poor mid-November - April, 2010.

On view indefinitely
Chinese Contemporary Art on loan from Mr. and Mrs. L.S. Kwee in the  
Asian art gallery
This collection reflects the dramatic changes that China has undergone  
in the recent past, particularly since the end of the Cultural  
Revolution in 1976. Liu Xiaodong's recent oil painting A Highway Near  
the Yangzi is among works on view.

ONGOING IN THE COLLECTION GALLERIES
The Center's collections span the history of art from ancient China to  
the 21st century.  Selections from the collections are on view in many  
of the Center's 24 galleries plus sculpture gardens and terraces,  
including:
    Rodin! The Complete Stanford Collection
This expanded display presents 200 works from the collection,  
including bronzes, plasters and waxes, plus a rotating selection of  
works on paper. Twenty large sculptures, including The Gates of Hell,  
remain perpetually on view in the Rodin Sculpture Garden.  Press  
release: http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/rodin.html
Free docent tours:  Wednesdays at 2 pm, Saturdays at 11:30 am, Sundays  
at 3 pm
Rodin Sculpture Garden is always open, free, with lighting for  
nighttime viewing
    Living Traditions: Arts of the Americas
Two galleries integrate work from different Native American peoples  
and times, including major commissions of Northwest Coast art and a  
recent gift of Precolumbian art.
More info: http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/ArtAmers.html
     A New 19th Century: The Mondavi Family Gallery Reinstalled
European and American art: portraiture, narrative art, still life, and  
landscape.  Also, changing selections of works on paper plus paintings  
as they might have been in the salon of a collector of the period.
More info: http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/19th-century.html
     African Art in Context
Diverse art, including items of dress and body ornament from the Himba  
people of Namibia and beadwork by the Zulu and Ndebele people. More  
info: http://museum.stanford.edu/view/africa.html
     The Life and Legacy of the Stanford Family
Examines the interests and accomplishments of the Stanford family,  
including the Central Pacific Railroad, the Palo Alto Stock Farm, the  
founding of Stanford University, and the early days of the museum.
More info:  http://museum.stanford.edu/view/stanford_family.html
     Stone River by Andy Goldsworthy
More info:  http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/archived_acquisitions_goldsworthy.html

VISITOR INFORMATION
FREE Admission
Museum Open: Wednesday-Sunday 11 am - 5 pm and Thursday evenings until  
8 pm
OPEN: New Year's Day, Jan. 1, 2010
Closed:  Mondays, Tuesdays, Thanksgiving Day, November 26, and  
December 23 - 25
LOCATED on the Stanford campus, off Palm Drive at Museum Way
Phone 650-723-4177     Web http://museum.stanford.edu
FREE PARKING on all weekends plus after 4 pm weekdays.  Pay parking  
($1.50 per hour) at other times.
Maps, directions: http://www.stanford.edu/home/visitors/maps.html   http://museum.stanford.edu/visit/visit_MapDirections.html
Exhibition schedule: http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/Exhibition_Schedule.html
Free Docent Tours:  http://museum.stanford.edu/visit/public_tours.html

Best regards,

Anna

Anna Koster
Head of Communications
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
328 Lomita Dr. (at Museum Way)
Stanford, CA 94305-5060
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