A new show features arts of the book from 16th- to 19-century Europe.
Open Easter Sunday. Details below.
Publicity images are at http://www.stanford.edu/dept/suma/news_room/documents/photos/

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
April - May 2011
    New Exhibition
    Continuing Exhibitions
    Programs and Events
    Gallery Changes
    Ongoing from the Collection
    Visitor Information

NEW EXHIBITION

Illustrated Title Pages: 1500-1900
April 13 - October 16
This exhibition of 80 illustrated title pages, drawn from the Center's  
collection and Stanford Library's Special Collections, traces the  
development of the title page from the 16th to 19th centuries.  During  
that time, title page techniques evolved from woodcuts and engravings  
to the more sophisticated practices of lithography, wood engraving,  
and photography, along with increasingly complex compositions.  Title  
page illustrations by such artists as Giovanni Battista Piranesi,  
Canaletto, Francisco Goya, William Morris, Odilon Redon, and Aubrey  
Beardsley are featured in this display. Press release: http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/title_pages.html

CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS

True Colors: Rediscovering Pigments on Greco-Roman Marble Sculpture
On view through 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


A Rediscovered Masterpiece: 12 Drawings from Domenico Tiepolo's New  
Testament
On view through 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


In a New York Minute: Photographs by Helen Levitt
On view through 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
On view through 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.
Press release: http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/levitt_rubinfien.html
	
PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
Saturdays, April 2, 9, and 16
Photography Class
Digital Street: Photography on the Fly
2-5 pm, Fee ($125/general public; $100/Cantor Arts Center members),  
pre-registration required; for availability, call 650-723-3469

Thursday, April 7
Film Screening
Serious Play: The Worlds of Helen Levitt
In this documentary, filmmaker Tanya Sleiman (Stanford M.F.A. in  
Documentary Film and Video, 2009) combines interviews with people who  
knew Levitt personally and professionally with the urban environments  
that were integral to Levitt's work. A question and answer session  
follows the screening.
Cantor Arts Center auditorium, 6 pm, FREE

Sunday, April 10
Lecture/Demonstration
"Mingus on Film"
Loren Schoenberg, director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem,  
presents an afternoon of rare film footage, live concert clips, and  
lively discussion about Charles Mingus’ music, life, and legacy.
Cantor Arts Center auditorium, 2 pm, FREE

Thursdays, April 21, 28, and May 5
Art Focus Lectures
"With Liberty and Justice for All: 18-th and 19th-Century American Art"
Bryan J. Wolf. Fee, pre-registration required; visit  
museum.stanford.edu for information.

Thursday, May 12
Art Focus Lecture
"California Contemporary: The Book as a Work of Art"
Peter Rutledge Koch from Peter Koch Printers speaks in conjunction  
with the exhibition The Art of the Book in California: Five  
Contemporary Presses.  Fee, pre-registration required; visit  
museum.stanford.edu for information.

Thursday, May 19
Christensen Distinguished Lecture
"Some Pages from Michelangelo's Life, with Refections on Some Other  
Lives"
Leonard Barkan, Class of 1943 University Professor, Department of  
Comparative Literature, Princeton University
5:30 pm, Cantor Arts Center auditorium

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

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 through 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 exploration of the theme of memory.

On view through June 26
Felix in Exile in the gallery for the art of Africa
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 presented as a large-scale  
projection. Press release: http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/sea_change.html

On view through February, 2012
Along the Track of the Yellowstone Hotspot: Fusion of Art and Science  
in the Rowland K. Rebele Gallery
Journals and artworks created by Stanford students studying the  
Yellowstone hotspot during summer 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 the 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
Extreme Makeover: A Fresh Look at the Cantor Arts Center's  
Contemporary Collection
This reinstallation includes works by Bay Area figurative and abstract  
expressionist sculptors and painters based in California: Manuel Neri,  
Jeremy Anderson, John Cederquist, Alvin Light, James Weeks, and Frank  
Lobdell.  Pieces acquired in the last decade include works by Robert  
Arneson, Isamu Noguchi, Elmer Bischoff, Joan Brown, and Al Held.   
There are also vibrant color field paintings by artists such as Jules  
Olitski, Frank Stella, and Miriam Schapiro.
Press release: http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/extreme_makeover.html
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

You can contact me, or you can contact Anna Koster (Head of  
Communications at the Cantor Arts Center, 650-725-4657,  ) if you have questions.

Margaret Whitehorn
PR Assistant Manager
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
650-724-3600, mmwhite@stanford.edu