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Cantor Arts Center

The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University features collections in twenty-seven galleries, special exhibitions, and stimulating educational programs and events. The Cantor Arts Center is a cultural hub for the Peninsula and South Bay region. Collections include The Ancient Americas, The Ancient Mediterranean, Africa, Asia, Oceania, Native America, Europe, The United States, Early Twentieth Century Art, and Contemporary Art. The Center also features an exquisite outdoor Auguste Rodin sculpture garden. Admission is free.

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    Cantor Arts Center

    328 Lomita Drive
    Stanford, CA 94305-5060

    Phone: 650-723-4177   |   Fax: 650-725-0464   |   Official Website

  • Current Events

    10/19/08- Ongoing	Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden - Public Tours Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden - Public Tours Presented by Cantor Arts Center at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University October 19, 2008 - Ongoing The Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden contains 40 wood and stone carvings of people, animals, and magical beings that illustrate creation stories and cultural traditions. Ten artists from the inland Sepik River area created the sculptures on-site during a five-month visit in 1994. This sculpture garden is located at Santa Teresa and Lomita Drive. The garden is always open; free tours are on the third Sunday of the month. Meet on the corner of Santa Teresa and Lomita Drive.
    10/18/08- Ongoing	Introduction to the Cantor Arts Center - Public Tours Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University Introduction to the Cantor Arts Center - Public Tours Presented by Cantor Arts Center at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University October 18, 2008 - Ongoing This introductory tour features objects from a variety of cultures and historic periods. Meet in the main lobby.
    10/16/08- Ongoing	MIX Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University MIX Presented by Cantor Arts Center at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University October 16, 2008 - Ongoing The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University debuts MIX, a monthly social event which happens on the third Thursday every month. This lively evening offers art, cocktails, music, and conversation in an inspiring setting. Each month, MIX will offer different experiences, from music to on-the-edge performance art, from gallery explorations to video, and more. MIX guests will be able to experience great art in Durer to Picasso; Timbuktu to Cape Town; Rodin!; Pop to...
    10/15/08- Ongoing	Ongoing Exhibitions in the Collection Galleries Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University Ongoing Exhibitions in the Collection Galleries Presented by Cantor Arts Center at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University October 15, 2008 - Ongoing In addition to temporary exhibitions, works from the collection are on view in many of the Cantor Arts Center's 24 galleries plus sculpture gardens and terraces. The collection spans the history of art from ancient Egypt and China to the 21st century. The following are among the works on view: Auguste Rodin Collection, Living Traditions: Arts of the Americas, A New 19th Century: The Mondavi Family Gallery Reinstalled, African Art in Context, and The Life and Legacy of the Stanford...
    10/15/08- Ongoing	Rodin Sculpture Garden - Public Tours Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University Rodin Sculpture Garden - Public Tours Presented by Cantor Arts Center at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University October 15, 2008 - Ongoing The Cantor Art Center’s collection of Rodin bronzes is the largest in the world outside Paris, second only to the Musee Rodin. More than fifty works by Rodin are on view inside the Center, mostly cast bronze, but also works in wax, plaster, and terra cotta. Twenty bronzes, including The Gates of Hell, on which Rodin worked for two decades to complete, are outside in the Sculpture Garden. The Burghers of Calais are nearby on campus. The garden is open 24 hours a day, is...
    10/05/08- Ongoing	Outdoor Sculpture Walk - Public Tours Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University Outdoor Sculpture Walk - Public Tours Presented by Cantor Arts Center at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University October 5, 2008 - Ongoing This tour explores the Stanford campus and its extensive outdoor collection of 20th-century sculpture in the quad and south campus area. Tour is given on the first Sunday of each month at 2pm. Meet at the Main Quad entrance where The Oval meets Serra Street.

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  • Current Events

    10/19/08- Ongoing	Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden - Public Tours Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden - Public Tours Presented by Cantor Arts Center at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University October 19, 2008 - Ongoing The Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden contains 40 wood and stone carvings of people, animals, and magical beings that illustrate creation stories and cultural traditions. Ten artists from the inland Sepik River area created the sculptures on-site during a five-month visit in 1994. This sculpture garden is located at Santa Teresa and Lomita Drive. The garden is always open; free tours are on the third Sunday of the month. Meet on the corner of Santa Teresa and Lomita Drive.
    10/18/08- Ongoing	Introduction to the Cantor Arts Center - Public Tours Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University Introduction to the Cantor Arts Center - Public Tours Presented by Cantor Arts Center at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University October 18, 2008 - Ongoing This introductory tour features objects from a variety of cultures and historic periods. Meet in the main lobby.
    10/16/08- Ongoing	MIX Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University MIX Presented by Cantor Arts Center at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University October 16, 2008 - Ongoing The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University debuts MIX, a monthly social event which happens on the third Thursday every month. This lively evening offers art, cocktails, music, and conversation in an inspiring setting. Each month, MIX will offer different experiences, from music to on-the-edge performance art, from gallery explorations to video, and more. MIX guests will be able to experience great art in Durer to Picasso; Timbuktu to Cape Town; Rodin!; Pop to...
    10/15/08- Ongoing	Ongoing Exhibitions in the Collection Galleries Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University Ongoing Exhibitions in the Collection Galleries Presented by Cantor Arts Center at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University October 15, 2008 - Ongoing In addition to temporary exhibitions, works from the collection are on view in many of the Cantor Arts Center's 24 galleries plus sculpture gardens and terraces. The collection spans the history of art from ancient Egypt and China to the 21st century. The following are among the works on view: Auguste Rodin Collection, Living Traditions: Arts of the Americas, A New 19th Century: The Mondavi Family Gallery Reinstalled, African Art in Context, and The Life and Legacy of the Stanford...
    10/15/08- Ongoing	Rodin Sculpture Garden - Public Tours Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University Rodin Sculpture Garden - Public Tours Presented by Cantor Arts Center at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University October 15, 2008 - Ongoing The Cantor Art Center’s collection of Rodin bronzes is the largest in the world outside Paris, second only to the Musee Rodin. More than fifty works by Rodin are on view inside the Center, mostly cast bronze, but also works in wax, plaster, and terra cotta. Twenty bronzes, including The Gates of Hell, on which Rodin worked for two decades to complete, are outside in the Sculpture Garden. The Burghers of Calais are nearby on campus. The garden is open 24 hours a day, is...
    10/05/08- Ongoing	Outdoor Sculpture Walk - Public Tours Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University Outdoor Sculpture Walk - Public Tours Presented by Cantor Arts Center at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University October 5, 2008 - Ongoing This tour explores the Stanford campus and its extensive outdoor collection of 20th-century sculpture in the quad and south campus area. Tour is given on the first Sunday of each month at 2pm. Meet at the Main Quad entrance where The Oval meets Serra Street.

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  • Past Events

    10/13/10- 03/20/11	Vodoun/Vodounon -- Portraits of Initiates Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    08/04/10- 01/02/11	Mami Wata -- Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    06/23/10- 09/26/10	True to Nature... Works of William Trost Richards - Exhibition Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    06/23/10- 09/26/10	William Trost Richards–True to Nature... Drawings, Watercolors, and Oil Sketches at Stanford University Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    05/27/10	Cultivating the Self... Poetry, Painting, and Music - Elegant Gatherings Musical Performance Series Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    04/25/10	Family Day at the Cantor Arts Center Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    04/08/10	Healing... Mind, Body and Music - Elegant Gatherings Musical Performance Series Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    03/17/10- 05/30/10	The Eye of the Beholder - Exhibition Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    02/17/10- 07/04/10	Tracing the Past, Drawing the Future - Master Ink Painters in 20th Century China Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    11/11/09- 02/21/10	Frank Lobdell Figure Drawings Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    09/16/09- 01/03/10	From Their Studios Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    07/31/09	Mary Poppins (1964) Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    07/29/09- 10/18/09	From the Bronze Age of China to Japan’s Floating World Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    07/17/09	Free Family Film at Cantor Art Center Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    04/15/09- 06/21/09	Splendid Grief - Darren Waterston and the Afterlife of Leland Stanford Jr. Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    04/15/09- 07/26/09	Appellations from Antiquity Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    04/03/09- 03/28/10	The Metaphysics of Notation Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    03/18/09- 08/16/09	Pop to Present Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    12/17/08- 03/29/09	Hendrick Goltzius: Promised Gifts from the Kirk Long Collection Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    12/03/08- 03/22/09	Timbuktu to CapeTown Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    11/12/08- 02/15/09	Durer to Picasso Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    10/15/08- 03/15/09	Goltzius and His Circle Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    10/15/08- 11/09/08	Richard Diebenkorn - Abstraction on Paper Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    10/15/08- 04/19/09	Andy Warhol Prints Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    10/15/08- 11/09/08	Richard Diebenkorn, Artist & Carey Stanton, Collector: Their Stanford Collection Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    06/04/08- 10/05/08	Spared from the Storm - Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    05/04/08	Family Fun Day Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    04/30/08- 07/06/08	Experiments in Navigation - The Art of Charles Hobson Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    03/26/08- 06/29/08	Makishi - Mask Characters of Zambia Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    01/30/08- 05/04/08	Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    01/02/08- 04/06/08	Private and Public: Class, Personality, Politics, and Landscape in British Photography Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    11/21/07- 03/02/08	Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings & Early Objects of H.C. W Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    10/18/07	Yosemite Films, Part 4 Annenberg Auditorium - Stanford University
    10/03/07- 01/06/08	Anxious Objects: Willie Cole's Favorite Brands Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    08/15/07	Yosemite Films, Part 2 Annenberg Auditorium - Stanford University
    08/08/07	Yosemite Films, Part 1 Annenberg Auditorium - Stanford University
    08/08/07- 12/02/07	Mutual Admiration: Eugene Carriere & His Circle Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    07/25/07- 10/28/07	Yosemite's Structure and Textures Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    05/30/07- 09/02/07	Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    03/21/07- 07/01/07	Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    02/14/07- 05/06/07	In the American West: Photography by Richard Avedon Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    11/15/06- 03/04/07	Visions of Dharma: Thai Contemporary Art Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    11/08/06- 12/31/06	A New 19th Century: The Mondavi Family Gallery Reinstalled Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    09/20/06- 12/31/06	The Virgin, Saints, and Angels: South American Paintings 1600 – 1825 Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    08/10/06	Twilight Summer Film Series - Pat and Mike Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    08/09/06- 11/26/06	Chasing History: Art and Provenance Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    07/27/06	Twilight Summer Film Series - West Side Story Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    07/19/06- 10/29/06	Chinese Painting on the Eve of the Communist Revolution Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    07/13/06	Twilight Summer Film Series - Chicken Run Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    04/29/06- 09/24/06	Art from Life: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    04/12/06- 07/23/06	The Perfume of Sadness: Symbolist Art from the Kirk Long Collection Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    04/11/06	Manifesto: A Conversation wi/ Filmmaker Dusan Makavejev Cubberley Auditorium - Stanford University
    04/07/06	Edvard Munch Annenberg Auditorium - Stanford University
    03/22/06- 06/25/06	Desire, Anxiety, and Loss: The Prints of Edvard Munch Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    02/01/06- 05/07/06	American ABC: Childhood in 19th-Century America Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    12/14/05- 03/26/06	Flaming Red Cloth: Color & Design in the Weavings of Borneo Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    10/12/05- 02/26/06	Fired at Davis: Figurative Ceramic Sculpture by Robert Arneson Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    09/14/05- 01/01/06	Revolutionary Tides - The Art of the Political Poster 1914 - 1989 Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    08/10/05- 11/27/05	Food, Frogs and Fido: Work on Paper by David Gilhooly Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    06/29/05- 09/18/05	Manufactured Landscapes - The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    06/15/05- 06/14/06	Auguste Rodin Sculpture Tour Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    06/15/05- 06/14/06	Introducing the Cantor Arts Center Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    06/10/05- 06/09/06	Memorial Church Tour Memorial Church - Stanford University
    06/05/05	Explore Outdoor Sculpture Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    05/26/05	Vanishing Worlds Lecture Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    05/25/05- 08/21/05	Vanishing Worlds - Art & Ritual in Amazonia Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    05/12/05	Pull My Daisy Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    04/29/05- 05/01/05	Treasure Market Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    04/17/05	Explore Outdoor Scuplture Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    04/13/05- 07/24/05	Shini-e: The Performance of Death in Japanese Woodblock Prints Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    03/12/05- 03/28/06	Family Tour of Cantor Arts Center Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    03/02/05- 06/12/05	Guardian of the Flame - Art of Sri Lanka Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    02/17/05- 03/06/05	Merce Cunningham - Dance for Film Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    01/26/05- 05/01/05	On the Edge - Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    12/18/04- 06/15/05	Sculpture by Manuel Neri & Nathan Oliveira Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    12/15/04- 03/27/05	The Terrible Imaginings of John Hamilton Mortimer Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    12/05/04	Holiday Musicale Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    11/18/04	Faculty Choice Lecture Series Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    10/20/04- 02/06/05	Women on the Verge Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    08/19/04	Rivers and Tides Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    08/04/04- 11/28/04	Finding Sellaio - Conserving & Attributing a Renaissance Painting Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    07/14/04- 01/02/05	Questions Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    04/14/04- 07/18/04	Grotesques–Leonardo's Strange Legacy Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    01/14/04- 05/02/04	The Artist Observed: Portraits and Self-Portraits Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    12/12/03- Ongoing	When Is a Portrait Not a Portrait? Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    11/12/03- 03/28/04	Fictional Worlds, Virtual Experiences: Storytelling & Computer Games Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    11/05/03- 02/01/04	Grotesques-The Inspiration of Leonardo Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    10/08/03- 01/18/04	Hudson River School Masterworks from Wadsworth Atheneum Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    09/10/03- 01/04/04	The Beginning of Seeing: Adolph Gottlieb & Tribal Art Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    09/07/03	Wired Gardens Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    08/21/03	Anton Schwartz Quartet Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    08/07/03	Twilight Films at the Cantor Arts Center Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    06/11/03- 09/07/03	The Changing Garden: 400 Years of European & American Art Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    05/07/03- 08/17/03	The Ideal Figure Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    03/15/03- 07/13/03	A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever—or Is It? Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    02/12/03- 06/15/03	Di Alte Heym: Photographs of Jewish Eastern Europe Before the Holocaust Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    02/05/03- 05/11/03	Time Stands Still: Muybridge & the Instantaneous Photography Movement Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    02/01/03- 02/28/03	The Photograph as Document/as Art Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    01/15/03- 04/20/03	Nsila-El Camino: Jose Bedia and The Spirit's Path in Congo Art Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    10/09/02- 01/12/03	Distinctly American: The Photography of Wright Morris
    09/18/02- 02/13/03	Multiple Exposure: Photographic Imagery and Contemporary Prints
    09/18/02- 12/29/02	Contemporary Reflections of Venetian Glass
    09/18/02- 12/29/02	Salviati at Stanford: Venetian Glass of the 1890s
    07/10/02- 11/03/02	A Sculptor's Sketch
    05/08/02- 08/11/02	Uncommon Legacies: Native American Art from the Peabody Essex Museum
    01/30/02- 04/21/02	Aerial Muse: The Art of Yvonne Jacquette
    10/31/01- 02/10/02	Men at Work: Paintings by Kristina Branch
    10/10/01- 01/06/02	Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa

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