Artsopolis: All Arts. Online. Anytime.

• Tell-a-friend
• Official web site

Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University

The Cantor Arts Center is located at the intersection of Museum Way and Lomita Drive on the Stanford campus, northwest of The Oval and the Main Quad. The B. Gerald Cantor Rodin Sculpture Garden is located next to the Center at the corner of Lomita Drive and Roth Way.

The parking along Museum Way is by permit only until 4pm on weekdays; one may park freely after 4pm and on weekends. Limited metered parking is available along Lomita Drive in front of the Center, and there is a parking structure with both metered and permit parking on Roth Way near the Center. Lomita Drive and Roth Way are accessible from Campus Drive, and Museum Way is accessible from Palm Drive.

Directions from Highway 101:
Take the Embarcadero exit west and cross El Camino Real. Embarcadero becomes Galvez Drive. Turn right on Campus Drive until you reach Palm Drive. Turn left on Palm Drive and continue until you reach Museum Way. Turn right on Museum Way and you will be facing the main entrance to the Center.

Directions from Highway 280:
Take Alpine Road exit east. Turn right on Junipero Serra, and turn left on Campus Drive. Follow Campus Drive until you reach Palm Drive. Turn on Palm Drive going in to campus until you reach Museum Way. Turn right on Museum Way and you will be facing the main entrance to the Center.

The Center is fully accessible to people with disabilities. For more information, call 650-723-4177.

• At-a-
  Glance
• Upcoming
  Events
• Past
  Events
• Video &
  Images
• Member
  Reviews

• Contact Info

  Cantor Center for Visual Art- Stanford University

  Lomita Drive & Museum Way
  Stanford, CA 94305-5060

  Phone: 650-723-4177

  Website

  Full map and directions

• Parking Info

  Parking along Museum Way is by permit only until 4:00 pm on weekdays, parking is free after 4:00 pm and on weekends. Metered parking is available along Lomita Drive in front of the Center, and a parking structure with both metered and permit parking is located on Roth Way near the Center. This parking is free after 4:00 pm weekdays and all day on weekends.

• Accessibility Info

• NOTE: We do our best to ensure all information is accurate, however it's a good idea to visit the website or call the venue to verify the information.

• Current Events

  11/12/08- 02/15/09	Durer to Picasso
  10/19/08- Ongoing	Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden - Public Tours
  10/18/08- Ongoing	Introduction to the Cantor Arts Center - Public Tours
  10/16/08- Ongoing	MIX
  10/15/08- Ongoing	Rodin Sculpture Garden - Public Tours
  10/15/08- 12/07/08	Andy Warhol Prints
  10/15/08- 03/29/09	Goltzius and His Circle
  10/15/08- Ongoing	Ongoing Exhibitions in the Collection Galleries
  10/05/08- Ongoing	Outdoor Sculpture Walk - Public Tours

• Upcoming Events

  12/03/08- 03/22/09	Timbuktu to CapeTown
  12/17/08- 03/29/09	Hendrick Goltzius: Promised Gifts from the Kirk Long Collection
  03/18/09- 08/16/09	Pop to Present
  04/15/09- 07/26/09	Appellations from Antiquity
  04/15/09- 06/21/09	Splendid Grief - Darren Waterston and the Afterlife of Leland Stanford Jr.
  07/29/09- 10/18/09	From the Bronze Age of China to Japan’s Floating World

• Member Reviews

  Add review/comment

  There are currently no reviews/comments for this venue - be the first to Add a Review/Comment, and let folks know what you think!

• Past Events

  10/15/08- 11/09/08	Richard Diebenkorn, Artist & Carey Stanton, Collector: Their Stanford Collection
  10/15/08- 11/09/08	Richard Diebenkorn - Abstraction on Paper
  06/04/08- 10/05/08	Spared from the Storm - Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art
  05/04/08	Family Fun Day
  04/30/08- 07/06/08	Experiments in Navigation - The Art of Charles Hobson
  03/26/08- 06/29/08	Makishi - Mask Characters of Zambia
  01/30/08- 05/04/08	Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American
  01/02/08- 04/06/08	Private and Public: Class, Personality, Politics, and Landscape in British Photography
  11/21/07- 03/02/08	Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings & Early Objects of H.C. W
  10/11/07	Dancing with the Rodins: Awaken
  10/03/07- 01/06/08	Anxious Objects: Willie Cole's Favorite Brands
  08/08/07- 12/02/07	Mutual Admiration: Eugene Carriere & His Circle
  07/25/07- 10/28/07	Yosemite's Structure and Textures
  05/30/07- 09/02/07	Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World
  03/21/07- 07/01/07	Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks
  02/14/07- 05/06/07	In the American West: Photography by Richard Avedon
  11/15/06- 03/04/07	Visions of Dharma: Thai Contemporary Art
  11/08/06- 12/31/06	A New 19th Century: The Mondavi Family Gallery Reinstalled
  09/20/06- 12/31/06	The Virgin, Saints, and Angels: South American Paintings 1600 – 1825
  08/10/06	Twilight Summer Film Series - Pat and Mike
  08/09/06- 11/26/06	Chasing History: Art and Provenance
  07/27/06	Twilight Summer Film Series - West Side Story
  07/19/06- 10/29/06	Chinese Painting on the Eve of the Communist Revolution
  07/13/06	Twilight Summer Film Series - Chicken Run
  06/07/06- 08/27/06	Conflict and Art
  05/17/06- 05/21/06	Love's Labour Lost
  04/29/06- 09/24/06	Art from Life: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg
  04/12/06- 07/23/06	The Perfume of Sadness: Symbolist Art from the Kirk Long Collection
  03/22/06- 06/25/06	Desire, Anxiety, and Loss: The Prints of Edvard Munch
  02/01/06- 05/07/06	American ABC: Childhood in 19th-Century America
  12/14/05- 03/26/06	Flaming Red Cloth: Color & Design in the Weavings of Borneo
  10/12/05- 02/26/06	Fired at Davis: Figurative Ceramic Sculpture by Robert Arneson
  09/14/05- 01/01/06	Revolutionary Tides - The Art of the Political Poster 1914 - 1989
  08/10/05- 11/27/05	Food, Frogs and Fido: Work on Paper by David Gilhooly
  06/29/05- 09/18/05	Manufactured Landscapes - The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky
  06/15/05- 06/14/06	Auguste Rodin Sculpture Tour
  06/15/05- 06/14/06	Introducing the Cantor Arts Center
  06/05/05	Explore Outdoor Sculpture
  05/26/05	Vanishing Worlds Lecture
  05/25/05- 08/21/05	Vanishing Worlds - Art & Ritual in Amazonia
  05/12/05	Pull My Daisy
  04/29/05- 05/01/05	Treasure Market
  04/17/05	Explore Outdoor Scuplture
  04/13/05- 07/24/05	Shini-e: The Performance of Death in Japanese Woodblock Prints
  04/10/05	Stanford Community Day
  03/12/05- 03/28/06	Family Tour of Cantor Arts Center
  03/02/05- 06/12/05	Guardian of the Flame - Art of Sri Lanka
  02/17/05- 03/06/05	Merce Cunningham - Dance for Film
  01/26/05- 05/01/05	On the Edge - Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West
  12/18/04- 06/15/05	Sculpture by Manuel Neri & Nathan Oliveira
  12/15/04- 03/27/05	The Terrible Imaginings of John Hamilton Mortimer
  12/05/04	Holiday Musicale
  11/18/04	Faculty Choice Lecture Series
  10/20/04- 02/06/05	Women on the Verge
  08/19/04	Rivers and Tides
  08/04/04- 11/28/04	Finding Sellaio - Conserving & Attributing a Renaissance Painting
  07/14/04- 01/02/05	Questions
  05/26/04- 09/26/04	The Shamanic World-View: Arts of the Americas
  04/14/04- 07/18/04	Grotesques–Leonardo's Strange Legacy
  02/18/04- 06/20/04	From Picasso to Thiebaud: Modern & Contemporary Art
  01/14/04- 05/02/04	The Artist Observed: Portraits and Self-Portraits
  12/12/03- Ongoing	When Is a Portrait Not a Portrait?
  11/12/03- 03/28/04	Fictional Worlds, Virtual Experiences: Storytelling & Computer Games
  11/05/03- 02/01/04	Grotesques-The Inspiration of Leonardo
  10/08/03- 01/18/04	Hudson River School Masterworks from Wadsworth Atheneum
  09/10/03- 01/04/04	The Beginning of Seeing: Adolph Gottlieb & Tribal Art
  09/07/03	Wired Gardens
  08/21/03	Anton Schwartz Quartet
  08/07/03	Twilight Films at the Cantor Arts Center
  07/20/03	Stories from Asia
  07/02/03- 10/19/03	From Forreine Places All the Varietie of Herbes
  06/11/03- 09/07/03	The Changing Garden: 400 Years of European & American Art
  05/07/03- 08/17/03	The Ideal Figure
  03/15/03- 07/13/03	A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever—or Is It?
  02/12/03- 06/15/03	Di Alte Heym: Photographs of Jewish Eastern Europe Before the Holocaust
  02/05/03- 05/11/03	Time Stands Still: Muybridge & the Instantaneous Photography Movement
  02/01/03- 02/28/03	The Photograph as Document/as Art
  01/15/03- 04/20/03	Nsila-El Camino: Jose Bedia and The Spirit's Path in Congo Art