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Cantor Center for Visual Arts - Stanford

The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, features collections in 27 galleries, special exhibitions, and stimulating educational programs and events. The 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.

CENTER HOURS:
Wed thru Sun: 11:00am - 5:00pm;
Thursday: 11:00am - 8:00pm
Monday/Tuesday/Holidays: Closed

ADMISSION: Free

LOCATION & PARKING:
The Cantor Arts Center is located at Lomita Drive and Museum Way, off Palm Drive, on the Stanford University campus. Limited metered parking is available in front of the Center on Lomita Drive and in the parking structure at the corner of Campus Drive and Roth Way. Parking in most areas is free and unrestricted after 4:00 pm and on the weekends.

The Center is fully accessible to people with disabilities.

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  Cantor Center for Visual Arts - Stanford

  Lomita Drive at Museum Way (off Palm Drive)
  Stanford, CA 94305-5060

  Phone: 650-723-4177

  Fax: 650-725-0464

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• Past Events

  05/04/08	Family Fun Day Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  04/30/08- 07/06/08	Experiments in Navigation - The Art of Charles Hobson Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  03/26/08- 06/29/08	Makishi - Mask Characters of Zambia Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  01/30/08- 05/04/08	Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  01/02/08- 04/06/08	Private and Public: Class, Personality, Politics, and Landscape in British Photography Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  11/21/07- 03/02/08	Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings & Early Objects of H.C. W Cantor Center for Visual Art- 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 Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  08/15/07	Yosemite Films, Part 2 Annenberg Auditorium - Stanford University
  08/08/07- 12/02/07	Mutual Admiration: Eugene Carriere & His Circle Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  08/08/07	Yosemite Films, Part 1 Annenberg Auditorium - Stanford University
  07/25/07- 10/28/07	Yosemite's Structure and Textures Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  05/30/07- 09/02/07	Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  03/21/07- 07/01/07	Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  02/14/07- 05/06/07	In the American West: Photography by Richard Avedon Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  11/15/06- 03/04/07	Visions of Dharma: Thai Contemporary Art Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  11/08/06- 12/31/06	A New 19th Century: The Mondavi Family Gallery Reinstalled Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  09/20/06- 12/31/06	The Virgin, Saints, and Angels: South American Paintings 1600 – 1825 Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  08/10/06	Twilight Summer Film Series - Pat and Mike Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  08/09/06- 11/26/06	Chasing History: Art and Provenance Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  07/27/06	Twilight Summer Film Series - West Side Story Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  07/19/06- 10/29/06	Chinese Painting on the Eve of the Communist Revolution Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  07/13/06	Twilight Summer Film Series - Chicken Run Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  06/07/06- 08/27/06	Conflict and Art Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  04/29/06- 09/24/06	Art from Life: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  04/12/06- 07/23/06	The Perfume of Sadness: Symbolist Art from the Kirk Long Collection Cantor Center for Visual Art- 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 Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  02/01/06- 05/07/06	American ABC: Childhood in 19th-Century America Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  12/14/05- 03/26/06	Flaming Red Cloth: Color & Design in the Weavings of Borneo Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  10/12/05- 02/26/06	Fired at Davis: Figurative Ceramic Sculpture by Robert Arneson Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  09/14/05- 01/01/06	Revolutionary Tides - The Art of the Political Poster 1914 - 1989 Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  08/10/05- 11/27/05	Food, Frogs and Fido: Work on Paper by David Gilhooly Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  06/29/05- 09/18/05	Manufactured Landscapes - The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  06/15/05- 06/14/06	Auguste Rodin Sculpture Tour Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  06/15/05- 06/14/06	Introducing the Cantor Arts Center Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  06/10/05- 06/09/06	Memorial Church Tour Memorial Church - Stanford University
  06/05/05	Explore Outdoor Sculpture Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  05/26/05	Vanishing Worlds Lecture Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  05/25/05- 08/21/05	Vanishing Worlds - Art & Ritual in Amazonia Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  05/12/05	Pull My Daisy Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  04/29/05- 05/01/05	Treasure Market Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  04/17/05	Explore Outdoor Scuplture Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  04/13/05- 07/24/05	Shini-e: The Performance of Death in Japanese Woodblock Prints Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  03/12/05- 03/28/06	Family Tour of Cantor Arts Center Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  03/02/05- 06/12/05	Guardian of the Flame - Art of Sri Lanka Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  02/17/05- 03/06/05	Merce Cunningham - Dance for Film Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  01/26/05- 05/01/05	On the Edge - Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  12/18/04- 06/15/05	Sculpture by Manuel Neri & Nathan Oliveira Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  12/15/04- 03/27/05	The Terrible Imaginings of John Hamilton Mortimer Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  12/05/04	Holiday Musicale Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  11/18/04	Faculty Choice Lecture Series Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  10/20/04- 02/06/05	Women on the Verge Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  08/19/04	Rivers and Tides Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  08/04/04- 11/28/04	Finding Sellaio - Conserving & Attributing a Renaissance Painting Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  07/14/04- 01/02/05	Questions Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  05/26/04- 09/26/04	The Shamanic World-View: Arts of the Americas Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  04/14/04- 07/18/04	Grotesques–Leonardo's Strange Legacy Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  02/18/04- 06/20/04	From Picasso to Thiebaud: Modern & Contemporary Art Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  02/06/04	Fictional Worlds Conference
  01/14/04- 05/02/04	The Artist Observed: Portraits and Self-Portraits Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  12/12/03- Ongoing	When Is a Portrait Not a Portrait? Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  11/12/03- 03/28/04	Fictional Worlds, Virtual Experiences: Storytelling & Computer Games Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  11/05/03- 02/01/04	Grotesques-The Inspiration of Leonardo Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  10/08/03- 01/18/04	Hudson River School Masterworks from Wadsworth Atheneum Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  09/10/03- 01/04/04	The Beginning of Seeing: Adolph Gottlieb & Tribal Art Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  09/07/03	Wired Gardens Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  08/21/03	Anton Schwartz Quartet Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  08/07/03	Twilight Films at the Cantor Arts Center Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  07/02/03- 10/19/03	From Forreine Places All the Varietie of Herbes Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  06/11/03- 09/07/03	The Changing Garden: 400 Years of European & American Art Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  05/07/03- 08/17/03	The Ideal Figure Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  03/15/03- 07/13/03	A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever—or Is It? Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  02/12/03- 06/15/03	Di Alte Heym: Photographs of Jewish Eastern Europe Before the Holocaust Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  02/05/03- 05/11/03	Time Stands Still: Muybridge & the Instantaneous Photography Movement Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  02/01/03- 02/28/03	The Photograph as Document/as Art Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  01/15/03- 04/20/03	Nsila-El Camino: Jose Bedia and The Spirit's Path in Congo Art Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University
  10/09/02- 01/12/03	Distinctly American: The Photography of Wright Morris
  09/18/02- 12/29/02	Salviati at Stanford: Venetian Glass of the 1890s
  09/18/02- 12/29/02	Contemporary Reflections of Venetian Glass
  09/18/02- 02/13/03	Multiple Exposure: Photographic Imagery and Contemporary Prints
  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