Discoveries, ideas and people to watch
The Inca artisans of the 1570s tried to recreate the pots their predecessors had made before the Spanish Conquest. Now Stanford's Archaeology Center retraces their steps.
Tagged: archaeology, Arts & Creativity, Humanities & Sciences
Stanford students team with their peers at Makerere University in Kampala to examine their preconceptions of each other.
Tagged: Africa, dance, Arts & Creativity, Humanities & Sciences
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.
Tagged: Cantor Center, Arts & Creativity, Humanities & Sciences
One 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”.
Tagged: Asian Art, Cantor Center, Arts & Creativity
Ancient 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.
Tagged: theater, Arts & Creativity, Humanities & Sciences
"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.
Tagged: Arts & Creativity, Humanities & Sciences
The Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) has awarded 18 grants for its 2009-10 grant competition.
Tagged: Arts News, Arts & Creativity, Humanities & Sciences
Why 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.
Tagged: art criticism, Arts News, Arts & Creativity, Humanities & Sciences
Believing that nature poetry can make us fall in love with nature itself, John Felstiner enlists poets and artists to inspire environmental action.
Tagged: Arts News, Arts & Creativity, Humanities & Sciences
A 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.
Tagged: Arts News, Arts & Creativity, Business