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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
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Press Release: Exhibition

Cantor Arts Center to present When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art

2020-11-24
The University of Michigan Museum of Art has set up socially distanced study pods in its atrium so that students starved of campus space for study and reflection can book slots
The Art Newspaper

Plans ‘in the trash can’: remote learning forces US college museums to get creative

Magazine

What have you missed most about Stanford art museums?

2020-12-11
Emily Scott as God in Palo Alto Players' "An Act of God." Image: Scott Lasky Photography.
Palo Alto Online

The art of adapting: Creatives focus on the divine — and the sublime — this fall

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Mountain View Voice

Accessing campus 'Museums From Home'

Virtual Tour MITM
The Mercury News

Bay Area museums have oodles of cool online stuff to see and do

William Arnett in his living room (1992) (photo by Bard Wrisley)
Hyperallergic

One of Black Southern Art’s Greatest Advocates, William S. Arnett, Dies at 81

Virtual Tour now Available
Press Release: Announcement

Virtual Tour and a Curator-Led Videos Now Available from Cantor & Anderson Collection at Stanford University

2020-09-01
Dr. Patrick Crowley, Associate Curator of European Art
Press Release: Announcement

Cantor Associate Curator of European Art Patrick R. Crowley Named Senior Fellow at the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

2020-09-01
Rodin's Sculpture Garden at the Cantor
The Mercury News

The top 10 most spectacular sculpture gardens in California