Recently, the Cantor Arts Center introduced a number of new exhibitions, including “STRAY,” “The Medium Is the Message” and “Island Universe.” Late last quarter, I had the privilege of touring these new exhibitions. I stepped into a nearly empty room with white walls and beige hardwood floors. The wall to my left housed a grand…
“Michael Richards: Winged” opened at the Stanford Art Gallery on January 22. The exhibition explores the life and work of artist Michael Richards, who was born in Brooklyn in 1963 and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. Richards achieved renown in the New York art world during the 1990s. His work focused on questions of identity and…
Each fall and winter, the Department of Art and Art History hosts Open Studios, an event featuring art created by undergraduate students. This year’s Open Studios took place on Dec. 7 in both the McMurtry building and the Stanford Art Gallery. According to event director Yuri Hobart, Open Studios featured the work of students from…
Works of art can bring us closer to other people, raise questions that make us examine our values and opinions and articulate emotions and thoughts we’ve had but have never expressed. Perhaps the most resonant artworks are those that give us a new framework for experiencing the world. Art can draw our attention and appreciation…
Tucked in at the corner of Hollywood and Highland Boulevards in the heart of Hollywood lies the Hollywood Museum, fronted by a seemingly nondescript building but filled with treasures of the silver screen. The first floor of the Hollywood Museum starts in the lobby, which hosts a collection of awards from various celebrities along with…
The Autry Museum of the American West, located northwest of Hollywood in Griffith Park and right across from the LA Zoo, offers something for anyone interested in the American West. Visitors will be surprised by the museum’s breadth and its expansive offerings, which span from contemporary art to native and activist art. Someone expecting to…
At first glance, the new photography exhibit at the Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion seems simple. White space is used consistently throughout the exhibit, the empty walls displaying only a few black and white photographs each. Two short films are projected in a makeshift theater tucked away in the corners of the Pavilion, and four wooden tables in the center of the room display photographs, letters, books, music scores and newspaper clippings, all dating back to the Vietnam War era.
This simplicity is the true beauty of the exhibit “We Shot the War: ‘Overseas Weekly’ in Vietnam.” The phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” seems to be the central focus of this exhibit, each brutally human photograph speaking for itself. While walking through the exhibit, one can see that these pictures do not aim to show the violence of the war, but rather to highlight the lives of soldiers and citizens alike.
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” the Cantor Arts Center recently featured “Betray the Secret: Humanity in the Age of ‘Frankenstein.’” The exhibition explored what it means to be human, raising the questions Shelley posed when she published the novel in 1818. The exhibition features 38 works of American and European…
