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Stanford University acquires Filipina American artist Pacita Abad’s archive

In Pacita Abad’s lifetime, the Filipina American artist made over 5,000 works—influenced by her travels in more than 60 countries—and exhibited in more than 250 shows, largely in Asia and Africa. But it was her posthumous travelling retrospective—which opened in 2023 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, almost two decades after her death in 2004 at age 58—that brought Abad’s exuberant, multifaceted, 32-year art practice to the attention of US institutions.

Now Stanford University has acquired the artist’s archives, a gift of the Pacita Abad Art Estate, which has also provided funding to...

Photography meets Victorian-era 3D printing in Cantor Arts Center’s new show

"In Greek and Roman mythology, Narcissus was a handsome young man who, while stopping to drink from a pond, fell in love with his own reflection. He was so overcome with adoration that he refused to leave and died of hunger. Like this mythical figure, we humans have always been fascinated by our own image, as can be seen today in the culture of influencers and the never-ending quest for the perfect selfie.

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Krasner & Pollock, Lichtenstein and RM Make Art’s New Season Pop This Fall

"A rare and fascinating exploration of a 19th-century forerunner of 3-D scanning invented by a young French artist named François Willème. (Sept. 17—Jan. 18, 2027; Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.)"