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Stanford News —

Meet Stanford’s fall quarter guest artists

Visiting filmmakers, writers, musicians, visual artists, and performers are sharing their work with the campus community this season, much of it highlighting themes of reflection and reinvention.

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Sam Francis at the Anderson Collection

A new exhibition at the Anderson Collection offers a close look at the paintings and prints of one of California’s most important postwar artists and his local connections.

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Morris Hirshfield’s life and work at the Cantor

Richard Meyer introduces Hirshfield to a 21st-century audience with a stunning exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center, an award-winning book, and an undergraduate course examining the conception and realization of a museum exhibition.

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‘Beyond Here’ opens at Cantor

An exhibition of photographs that document sweeping 20th-century political, social, and artistic movements across Latin America opened this month at the Cantor Arts Center.

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Stanford Medicine —

Art that confronts the paradox of plastic medical waste

A new sculpture in the Biomedical Innovations Building at the School of Medicine was created by Desiree LaBeaud and artist Jean Shin using discarded pipette tip boxes.

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Exhibition explores humanity’s impact on bodies of water

A new Anderson Collection art exhibition focuses on humankind’s negative impact on natural bodies of water.

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Stanford News —

Meet the spring quarter visiting artists

Dozens of guest artists are coming to the Stanford campus this quarter to entertain, delight, provoke, and shed light on global issues.

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A collection of pets

April 11 is National Pet Day, and to celebrate our furry and faithful, feathered and flighty, and hooved friends, the keepers of the art collections around campus contributed images to a slideshow of pets.

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‘Lost Birds’ memorial comes to campus

Artist Todd McGrain’s bird memorial documenting a changing world can now be seen on the Stanford campus. A companion documentary film screening and musical performance are scheduled for Family Weekend.

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The urgent and beautiful work of healing

Artist-scholar Karishma Bhagani’s graduate repertory play about grief and loss is informed by her research on African and South Asian diaspora storytelling.

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