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Discover the Best Museums Near Palo Alto: Journey into Art, Science, and History

California.com

First stop, a mere stone's throw away from Palo Alto's city center, you'll discover the Cantor Arts Center. Known for its rich collection of art from various time periods and cultures, Cantor is a local treasure.

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The Guardian

Reality Makes Them Dream: American photography from 1929 to 1941 – in pictures

An expansive exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University showcases work that inspired the imagination during a time of great turmoil.

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Hyperallergic

Ruth Asawa, Without End

Asawa’s life masks disentangle the impulse to collect from a culture of mourning — they do not keep count of past or future losses.

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Asawa Masks
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California.com

Discover the Best Museums Near Palo Alto: Journey into Art, Science, and History

A woman in a kitchen facing away from the viewer
The Guardian

Reality Makes Them Dream: American photography from 1929 to 1941 – in pictures

Marion Post Wolcott (American, 1910–1990), Center of town. Woodstock, Vermont. “Snowy Night”, 1940. Selenium-tinted gelatin silver print. Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University. Gift of Michael and Sheila Wolcott, 2000.135
Palo Alto Online

Photography exhibition shows there was much more to life in the 1930s than the Great Depression

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Metro

Reality Makes Them Dream: Recontextualizing 1930s Photography

de Young Museum. Photo courtesy of FAMSF.
Artnet

How Will Technology Shape the Museum of Tomorrow? 20 Museum Directors Will Convene in the Bay Area to Explore Digital Horizons

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Stanford Arts

IMU UR2: Asian American Art, Intersectionality, and Collective Memory

Asawa Masks
Hyperallergic

Ruth Asawa, Without End

Patty Chang, Que Sera Sera/Invocations, 2013–14, two-channel video. Courtesy the artist
ArtReview

The Ramifications of Oppression in the Asian American Community

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Datebook

This Bay Area museum director kicked off a troubled institution’s renaissance. Here are her plans for 2023

A gallery view of East of The Pacific exhibition at the Cantor
Frieze

The Initiative Preserving the Past and Securing the Future of Asian American Art