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Stanford, Ugandan students bridge cultural divide through performance

dance_uganda.jpgStanford students team with their peers at Makerere University in Kampala to examine their preconceptions of each other.

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Cantor showcases Stanford faculty artists, photographers, sculptors, printmakers and filmmakers

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For Lukas Felzmann, great photos don't happen in a moment. They are the result of "extended attention and receptiveness."

The art lecturer is one among a baker's dozen of faculty artists, photographers, printmakers, sculptors and filmmakers from the Department of Art and Art History who are exhibiting their works at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts.

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Cantor exhibition spotlights Asian acquisitions from Zhou dynasty to modern East Asia

asianart.jpgOne of the final works of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, a great master of Japanese woodblock printing, is a highpoint of the current exhibition at the Cantor Center for Visual Arts, “From the Bronze Age of China to Japan’s Floating World”.

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Stanford Summer Theater’s Electra Festival explores memory, forgetting and justice

electra_festival.jpgAncient Greece. Two royal princesses, two different choices. Their father had been murdered years before by their mother, who now reigns with her lover. One daughter complies unwillingly with the new regime; the other is punished for resisting. Life, as they say, “moves on” for the rest of the populace.

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Taking the Time to Study Speed

Speed_Limits.jpg"Life in the fast lane" is a contemporary phrase we often use to describe exciting, action-packed events in our lives, but just what is the human obsession with speed? Jeffrey Schnapp explores this very question in a new museum exhibit.

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New grants promote arts at Stanford

flora_sica.jpgThe Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) has awarded 18 grants for its 2009-10 grant competition.

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Art Critics in Residence

Acocella_Joan.jpgWhy write about art? And why read art criticism? The Arts Critics in Residence series has brought leading arts critics to Stanford campus to engage with these questions, and to answer them through the example of their own work.

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Nature's Representatives

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Believing that nature poetry can make us fall in love with nature itself, John Felstiner enlists poets and artists to inspire environmental action.

 

 

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Symphony Takes Shape Online

Tim_Lee.jpgA Stanford MBA student developed the idea of harnessing the power of YouTube to host amateur and other unheralded musicians in a virtual orchestra. The result was a concert at Carnegie Hall featuring musicians from around the world.

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Stanford's 50-year-old archive celebrates sound

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Composer Kurt Weill's Railroads on Parade was one of the most popular attractions at the 1939-40 World's Fair in New York City. It has never been performed since.  There's only one known recording, and Stanford has it. The 16-inch LPs are in the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this academic year.

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