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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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A woman in a kitchen facing away from the viewer
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
An image depicting "The Three Shades" by Auguste Rodin
Magazine

Rodin: A Man of Multiplicity and Modernity

2021-06-01
An image of Reena Kallat's artwork, Woven Chronicle.
MetroActive

Don't Blink: Stanford's Cantor Arts Center opens for a quick exhibition and a hybrid future

An image of Xaviera Simmons' "Found the Sea like the River"
Magazine

Reflections on the Forces that Push and Pull us Towards Home

2021-05-14
An image of Ruth Asawa's "Untitled (Wall Of Masks)"
Magazine

Face-to-Face With Ruth Asawa's Wall of Masks

2021-05-05
Visitors walk past Reena Saini Kallat's piece "Woven Chronicle" (2011-2019) in the temporary exhibition "When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art" in the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. Courtesy Andrew Brodhead/Stanford University.
Palo Alto Online

A new start for art at Stanford: Cantor Arts Center and Anderson Collection reopen

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Palo Alto Online

'Exquisite Reality' exhibition explores the political power of early photography

Palo Alto Online

Some Stanford art venues announce upcoming reopening plans for spring

The Mercury News

Stanford art museums, athletic fields to reopen

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Stanford Report

Stanford art museums, Frost Amphitheater begin to reopen

An image of Ruth Asawa's "Wall of Masks"
Hyperallergic

At Stanford, a New Initiative Will Study and Exhibit More Asian American Art