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Four new shows: photography, master drawings, and a new twist on ancient art. Fours lectures. Treasure Market is March 25–27.

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
February - March 2011
   New Exhibitions
   Continuing Exhibitions
   Programs
   Gallery Changes
   Ongoing from the Collection
   Visitor Information

NEW EXHIBITIONS

In a New York Minute: Photographs by Helen Levitt
February 2 - May 1
The urban environment is the subject of this exhibition of photographs and a short film by Helen Levitt, on loan from The Capital Group Foundation.  Shortly before her death, Levitt (1913–2009) selected the images as examples of her best work. In a New York Minute features 55 photographs in color and black-and-white, as well as Levitt’s film In the Street (1952).  
Press release: http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/levitt_rubinfien.html


Paths through the Global City: Photographs by Leo Rubinfien
February 2 - May 1 
This exhibition of Leo Rubinfien's photography features views of cities on five continents. It presents approximately 35 works from Rubinfien’s four major projects: A Map of the East (1992), Wounded Cities (2008), and two series still in progress, World Cities and New York City. Included are color and black-and white photographs, some that were donated to the Center in 2008 by an anonymous benefactor, as well as other works on loan from the artist.  Artist's Talk:  Thursday, February 3, Cantor Arts Center auditorium, 6 pm
Press release: http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/levitt_rubinfien.html


A Rediscovered Masterpiece: 12 Drawings from Domenico Tiepolo's New Testament
March 2 - May 29
This exhibition features 12 New Testament illustrations drawn by the prolific Venetian master Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727–1804).  Although he produced oil paintings and etchings, Tiepolo's most significant works are drawings, which were usually done first with black chalk and then colored and enhanced with pen, ink, and brown wash.  In the late 18th century, working in semi-retirement, Tiepolo created 316 drawings that vividly illustrate the history of early Christianity. His subjects include the detailed depiction of the story of Jesus and events in the lives of Christian saints.  The 12 works in this exhibition are on loan from Indiana University Art Museum’s Anthony J. Moravec Collection.  
Press release: http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/tiepolo.html 


True Colors
March 16 – August 7
Greco-Roman sculpture was never intended to be white, and this exhibition features the once-lively colors of sculpture from that era. Using handheld X-ray fluorescence technology, a Cantor Arts Center team led by undergraduate chemical engineering major Ivy Nguyen discovered minute traces of pigments that originally covered these sculptures but were washed away over the millennia.  Nguyen's team used 3D rapid prototypic technology to create replicas of the original artwork, which are painted to look as the sculpture did in ancient times.  
Press release: http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/true-colors.html

CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS
Chiaroscuro Woodcuts from 16th-Century Italy: Promised Gifts from the Kirk Edward Long Collection
On view through February 27
One of the glories of 16th-century Italian printmaki ng was the invention and proliferation of chiaroscuro woodcuts, the first technology for reproducing images in color. Drawn entirely from the collection of Kirk Edward Long, this display traces the evolution of thematic and compositional styles in Italy from the High Renaissance through mannerism. The 21 examples also illustrate the capacity of this hybrid medium to achieve both linear and painterly effects in a medium that allowed for replication. The exhibition includes Bartolomeo Coriolano’s monumental Fall of the Giants.  Press release: http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/chiaroscuro.html

Vodoun/Vodounon: Portraits of Initiates 
On view through March 20 
This exhibition features 25 compelling diptychs by the Belgian photographer Jean-Dominique Burton, who pairs black-and-white portraits with color photographs for a sensitive portrayal of Vodoun practitioners and their sacred shrines. Burton's images provide an exceptional glimpse into the esoteric domain of this traditional Fon religion, now called variously Vodou, Vodun, Vaudou, or Vaudoux, as practiced in the heart of its birthplace, the current-day Republic of Benin. Burton's work is accompanied by a documentary video, which plays alongside the artworks in this exhibition.  Press release: http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/vodoun.html


Felix in Exile
On view through June 26
The last video in the Longing for Sea-Change series, William Kentridge's Felix in Exile tells the story of a man living in exile in Paris while witnessing the ordeals faced by his alter ego, Nandi, a woman working as a land surveyor in the newly democratic South Africa.  The nine-minute film is based on 40 charcoal drawings that the artist sketched, reworked, and captured in 35mm photographs.  Felix in Exile is presented as a large-scale projection in the gallery for the art of Africa.  Press release: http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/sea_change.html 


Extreme Makeover: A Fresh Look at the Cantor Arts Center's Contemporary Collection
Opened in December, now ongoing
This reinstallation of the contemporary gallery juxtaposes new acquisitions with familiar pieces and works that have been off view.  Anchoring the display are works by Bay Area figurative and abstract expressionist sculptors and painters based in California, such as Manuel Neri, Jeremy Anderson, John Cederquist, Alvin Light, James Weeks, and Frank Lobdell.  Modern and contemporary pieces acquired in the last decade are carefully selected for the varied groupings in this display and include works by Robert Arneson, Isamu Noguchi, Elmer Bischoff, Joan Brown, and Al Held.  The prominent south wall features vibrant color field paintings by artists such as Jules Olitski, Frank Stella, and Miriam Schapiro.  Gallery talks in February are listed below.  
Press release:  http://museum.. stanford.edu/news_room/extreme_makeover.html  

PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
Thursday, February 3 
Artist's Talk: Leo Rubinfien 
"Where I've Been Going, and Why" 
The photographer discusses working in various locations around the globe, in conjunction with the Center's exhibition of his work, Paths through the Global City.  
Cantor Arts Center auditorium, 6 pm, FREE

Sundays in February
Inviting Conversations
Center docents conduct casual discussions about art and the Extreme Makeover exhibition on a drop-in basis.
Freidenrich Family Gallery, 1 - 3 pm, FREE

Thursday, February 10 
Remember Mingus: Jazz at the Cantor Arts Center
Jim Nadel, artistic and executive director of the Stanford Jazz Workshop, leads a conversation with Charles Mingus alum and veteran saxophonist Charles McPherson, joined by special guests for a demonstration of Mingus’s music.  Presented in collaboration with Stanford Lively Arts.
Cantor Arts Center auditorium, 6:30 pm, FREE

Wednesday, March 2 (rescheduled from Jan. 13)
Ruth K. Franklin Lecture on the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
"Gods without Green Cards"
Donald Cosentino, Ph.D., professor of culture and performance, Department of World Arts and Cultures, University of California at Los Angeles, speaks about transformations of the West African Vodoun into the Vodou deities of Haiti and south Florida.
Cantor Arts Center auditorium, 5 pm, FREE

Friday–Sunday, March 25–27
Treasure Market
This biennial event, a sale of artworks, home decor, and personal treasures from around the world, is organized by volunteers. All proceeds support the Cantor Art Center's fund to purchase new works for the museum's collection.
Opening Night Party, Silent Auction, and Sale, Friday, March 25, 6:30 - 9:30 pm.  Tickets ($100/general public; $75/Cantor Arts Center members) go on sale in February; call 650-723-2997. This year's theme is Vintage in Vogue.
Treasure Market Sale, Saturday and Sunday, March 26 - 27, 10 am - 2 pm; open to the public; admission $5
Arrillaga Center for Sports and Recreation, Stanford University
Press release:  http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/T.Mkt_2011.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

March 2 - June 5
Memory in the Patricia S. Rebele Gallery
An allegorical portrait of a mid-17th-century emperor embodies the individual and collective histories and aspirations that continue the Center's e xploration of the theme of memory.

On view through February 13
Chinese Landscape Painting in Transformation in the Asia gallery
This display traces the long-cherished genre of landscape painting in Chinese art history.  During the Qing era (1616-1911), China's last imperial dynasty, orthodox artists painted mountains and rivers in accord with classical aesthetics, while European missionaries serving as court painters introduced Western perspective. In the 20th and 21st centuries, in response to Western modernism and contemporary art developments, Chinese artists took up abstract and conceptual experimentation in landscapes. This transformation is exemplified by newly displayed works from Wang Hui, Giuseppe Castiglione, Liu Guosong, and Xu Bing.  Items also on view include Tibetan paintings on cloth and a Ming Dynasty "neifu" (inner palace) stoneware jar.

On view through February 20 
Embracing Color: The Evolution of Prints in the Europe 1500 - 1800, ancient Greece and Rome gallery
Traces the ways in which colorful printmaking developed in Europe during the late 17th century, when new techniques allowed print artists to reflect painted imagery.

On view through March 13
Faculty Choice: Out of the Wild in the Rowland K. Rebele Gallery
Stanford's Mark Feldman investigates depictions of nature from the Center's collections. 

On view through May 29
Animals Observed in the 19th-century gallery
Photos and illustrations by artists such as Eadweard Muybridge and John Woodhouse Audubon show animals in their activities and physical reality. 

On view through June 5
Making the Cut: Woodblock Prints from the Permanent Collection in the early modern gallery 
An exhibition of 20th-century woodblock prints from the Center's collection, featuring black-and-white and color prints by French, German, and American artists, including Maurice de Vlaminck, Conrad Felixmüller, Erich Heckel, and Max Beckmann. 

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 the works on view.
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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 sculp tures, 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

Go Figure!
Contemporary figurative paintings and sculptures, including works in bronze, clay, glass, and wood, by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Roger Brown, Mel Edwards, Viola Frey, Robert Graham, Duane Hanson, Manuel Neri, Isamu Noguchi, Peter Vanden Berge, and other artists.  Press release: http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/go-figure.html

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
CLOSED:  Mondays and Tuesdays
OPEN:  Easter Sunday, April 24, 11 am - 5 pm  
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

Contact me or Anna Koster, Head of Communications at the Cantor Arts Center if you have questions:  650-725-4657,  <akoster@stanford.edu>









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