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Organization
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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Contact Info
Cantor Arts Center
328 Lomita Drive
Stanford, CA 94305-5060Phone: 650-723-4177
Fax: 650-725-0464
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Past Events
07/31/09 Mary Poppins (1964)
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University07/29/09-
10/18/09From the Bronze Age of China to Japan’s Floating World
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University07/17/09 Free Family Film at Cantor Art Center
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University04/15/09-
06/21/09Splendid Grief - Darren Waterston and the Afterlife of Leland Stanford Jr.
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University04/15/09-
07/26/09Appellations from Antiquity
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University03/18/09-
08/16/09Pop to Present
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University12/17/08-
03/29/09Hendrick Goltzius: Promised Gifts from the Kirk Long Collection
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University12/03/08-
03/22/09Timbuktu to CapeTown
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University11/12/08-
02/15/09Durer to Picasso
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University10/15/08-
11/09/08Richard Diebenkorn, Artist & Carey Stanton, Collector: Their Stanford Collection
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University10/15/08-
04/19/09Andy Warhol Prints
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University10/15/08-
11/09/08Richard Diebenkorn - Abstraction on Paper
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University10/15/08-
03/15/09Goltzius and His Circle
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University06/04/08-
10/05/08Spared from the Storm - Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University05/04/08 Family Fun Day
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University04/30/08-
07/06/08Experiments in Navigation - The Art of Charles Hobson
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University03/26/08-
06/29/08Makishi - Mask Characters of Zambia
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University01/30/08-
05/04/08Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University01/02/08-
04/06/08Private and Public: Class, Personality, Politics, and Landscape in British Photography
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University11/21/07-
03/02/08Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings & Early Objects of H.C. W
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University10/18/07 Yosemite Films, Part 4
Annenberg Auditorium - Stanford University10/03/07-
01/06/08Anxious Objects: Willie Cole's Favorite Brands
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University08/15/07 Yosemite Films, Part 2
Annenberg Auditorium - Stanford University08/08/07-
12/02/07Mutual Admiration: Eugene Carriere & His Circle
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University08/08/07 Yosemite Films, Part 1
Annenberg Auditorium - Stanford University07/25/07-
10/28/07Yosemite's Structure and Textures
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University05/30/07-
09/02/07Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University03/21/07-
07/01/07Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University02/14/07-
05/06/07In the American West: Photography by Richard Avedon
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University11/15/06-
03/04/07Visions of Dharma: Thai Contemporary Art
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University11/08/06-
12/31/06A New 19th Century: The Mondavi Family Gallery Reinstalled
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University09/20/06-
12/31/06The Virgin, Saints, and Angels: South American Paintings 1600 – 1825
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University08/10/06 Twilight Summer Film Series - Pat and Mike
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University08/09/06-
11/26/06Chasing History: Art and Provenance
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University07/27/06 Twilight Summer Film Series - West Side Story
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University07/19/06-
10/29/06Chinese Painting on the Eve of the Communist Revolution
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University07/13/06 Twilight Summer Film Series - Chicken Run
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University06/07/06-
08/27/06Conflict and Art
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University04/29/06-
09/24/06Art from Life: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University04/12/06-
07/23/06The Perfume of Sadness: Symbolist Art from the Kirk Long Collection
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University04/11/06 Manifesto: A Conversation wi/ Filmmaker Dusan Makavejev
Cubberley Auditorium - Stanford University04/07/06 Edvard Munch
Annenberg Auditorium - Stanford University03/22/06-
06/25/06Desire, Anxiety, and Loss: The Prints of Edvard Munch
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University02/01/06-
05/07/06American ABC: Childhood in 19th-Century America
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University12/14/05-
03/26/06Flaming Red Cloth: Color & Design in the Weavings of Borneo
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University10/12/05-
02/26/06Fired at Davis: Figurative Ceramic Sculpture by Robert Arneson
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University09/14/05-
01/01/06Revolutionary Tides - The Art of the Political Poster 1914 - 1989
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University08/10/05-
11/27/05Food, Frogs and Fido: Work on Paper by David Gilhooly
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University06/29/05-
09/18/05Manufactured Landscapes - The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University06/15/05-
06/14/06Auguste Rodin Sculpture Tour
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University06/15/05-
06/14/06Introducing the Cantor Arts Center
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University06/10/05-
06/09/06Memorial Church Tour
Memorial Church - Stanford University06/05/05 Explore Outdoor Sculpture
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University05/26/05 Vanishing Worlds Lecture
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University05/25/05-
08/21/05Vanishing Worlds - Art & Ritual in Amazonia
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University05/12/05 Pull My Daisy
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University04/29/05-
05/01/05Treasure Market
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University04/17/05 Explore Outdoor Scuplture
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University04/13/05-
07/24/05Shini-e: The Performance of Death in Japanese Woodblock Prints
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University03/12/05-
03/28/06Family Tour of Cantor Arts Center
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University03/02/05-
06/12/05Guardian of the Flame - Art of Sri Lanka
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University02/17/05-
03/06/05Merce Cunningham - Dance for Film
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University01/26/05-
05/01/05On the Edge - Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University12/18/04-
06/15/05Sculpture by Manuel Neri & Nathan Oliveira
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University12/15/04-
03/27/05The Terrible Imaginings of John Hamilton Mortimer
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University12/05/04 Holiday Musicale
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University11/18/04 Faculty Choice Lecture Series
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University10/20/04-
02/06/05Women on the Verge
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University08/19/04 Rivers and Tides
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University08/04/04-
11/28/04Finding Sellaio - Conserving & Attributing a Renaissance Painting
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University07/14/04-
01/02/05Questions
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University05/26/04-
09/26/04The Shamanic World-View: Arts of the Americas
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University04/14/04-
07/18/04Grotesques–Leonardo's Strange Legacy
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University02/18/04-
06/20/04From Picasso to Thiebaud: Modern & Contemporary Art
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University02/06/04 Fictional Worlds Conference
01/14/04-
05/02/04The Artist Observed: Portraits and Self-Portraits
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University12/12/03-
OngoingWhen Is a Portrait Not a Portrait?
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University11/12/03-
03/28/04Fictional Worlds, Virtual Experiences: Storytelling & Computer Games
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University11/05/03-
02/01/04Grotesques-The Inspiration of Leonardo
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University10/08/03-
01/18/04Hudson River School Masterworks from Wadsworth Atheneum
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University09/10/03-
01/04/04The Beginning of Seeing: Adolph Gottlieb & Tribal Art
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University09/07/03 Wired Gardens
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University08/21/03 Anton Schwartz Quartet
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University08/07/03 Twilight Films at the Cantor Arts Center
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University07/02/03-
10/19/03From Forreine Places All the Varietie of Herbes
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University06/11/03-
09/07/03The Changing Garden: 400 Years of European & American Art
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University05/07/03-
08/17/03The Ideal Figure
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University03/15/03-
07/13/03A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever—or Is It?
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University02/12/03-
06/15/03Di Alte Heym: Photographs of Jewish Eastern Europe Before the Holocaust
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University02/05/03-
05/11/03Time Stands Still: Muybridge & the Instantaneous Photography Movement
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University02/01/03-
02/28/03The Photograph as Document/as Art
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University01/15/03-
04/20/03Nsila-El Camino: Jose Bedia and The Spirit's Path in Congo Art
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University10/09/02-
01/12/03Distinctly American: The Photography of Wright Morris
09/18/02-
12/29/02Salviati at Stanford: Venetian Glass of the 1890s
09/18/02-
12/29/02Contemporary Reflections of Venetian Glass
09/18/02-
02/13/03Multiple Exposure: Photographic Imagery and Contemporary Prints
07/10/02-
11/03/02A Sculptor's Sketch
05/08/02-
08/11/02Uncommon Legacies: Native American Art from the Peabody Essex Museum
01/30/02-
04/21/02Aerial Muse: The Art of Yvonne Jacquette
10/31/01-
02/10/02Men at Work: Paintings by Kristina Branch
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