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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...

Stanford: “Miljohn Ruperto: Animal, Vegetable, nor Mineral”

Miljohn Ruperto
Animal, Vegetable, nor Mineral
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford
Mar 12–Sep 14, 2026

In Miljohn Ruperto’s Mineral Monsters (2014), animated minerals shimmer and shift as you move your head—caught in a perpetual vibration produced by parallax, the optical effect that makes an object appear to jump between your eyes. Look with one eye, and the segment settles. Look with both, and it lives in motion. “There are no mineral monsters,” according to philosopher Georges Canguilhem, who argued that monstrousness is constructed through our own definitions of normality and our tendency to...

Neither animal, vegetable nor mineral — but what?

Miljohn Ruperto’s exhibit at the Cantor Museum until Sept. 14, “Animal, Vegetable, Nor Mineral” is none of those, or all of those — or I know not what to call it.

This is a real mixed bag. Items that fool the eye and make you think harder about how we represent and contemplate the world.

There are some ceramic sculptures, some paintings, videos, generative AI screens and virtual reality exhibits. Many were created by Ruperto collaborating with other artists and specialists; he highlights those collaborations in his explanatory comments.

There’s a wall of shimmering digital panels depicting...