Stanford University

Current Exhibitions

SOCIAL DISTANCING IS REQUIRED INSIDE THE MUSEUM. THE USE OF MASKS IS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED.

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A black and white image of a naked woman floating in a pool
Exhibition

Reality Makes Them Dream: American Photography, 1929–1941

March 29, 2023–July 30, 2023

 

In the fall of 1930, Stanford biology professor Laurence Bass-Becking used a curious phrase to describe the photography of his friend...

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Rodin's Gates of Hell
Outdoor Sculpture

The B. Gerald Cantor Rodin Sculpture Garden

 

Since it officially opened in 1985, The B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Garden has been open to the public twenty-four hours a day, three...

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Exhibitions

A black and white image of a naked woman floating in a pool
Exhibition

Reality Makes Them Dream: American Photography, 1929–1941

March 29, 2023–July 30, 2023
A black and white photograph of a couple with child in the woods
Exhibition

A Change of Scenery: Photographs of Leisure in the Landscape

February 8, 2023–July 16, 2023
In-gallery view of Yinka Shonibare's "The American Library" at the Cantor
Exhibition

Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA: The American Library

June 2, 2021–June 4, 2023
image of a person standing on a circle of sand
Media Arts Installation

A young Yu: Mourning Rituals

December 14, 2022–May 7, 2023
An image of artist Ruth Asawa infront of her Wall of Masks
Ongoing Installation

The Faces of Ruth Asawa

July 6, 2022–Ongoing

Collection Rotations

Auguste François Willème (French, 1830–1905), "Portrait of Matilde de Aguilera y Gamboa, Lady of Fontagud" (detail), c. 1865. White bisque porcelain. Cantor Arts Center Collection, Robert and Pauline Sears Fund, 2021.94
Collection Rotation

European and American Art: Late Renaissance through 1900

January 19, 2022–Ongoing
A cityscape from the early twentieth century by Edward Hopper
Collection Rotation

The Early Twentieth Century

September 1, 2021–Ongoing
Sung-woo Chun's Ancient Harvest
Collection Rotation

The Medium Is the Message: Art since 1950

August 25, 2021–Ongoing
A view of a mourning cabinet
Collection Rotation

The Melancholy Museum: Love, Death, and Mourning at Stanford

September 18, 2019–Ongoing
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Collection Rotation

Richard Diebenkorn at the Cantor

September 4, 2019–Ongoing
Memories
Collection Rotation

In Dialogue: African Arts

September 15, 2017–Ongoing
Auguste Rodin
Collection Rotation

Rodin: The Shock of the Modern Body

September 15, 2017–Ongoing
Betelgeuse
Collection Rotation

Spencer Finch: Betelgeuse

September 15, 2016–Ongoing

Outdoor Sculptures

A yellow sculpture with the oversized letters Y and O
Outdoor Sculpture

Deborah Kass: OY/YO

December 20, 2019–Ongoing
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Outdoor Sculpture

Richard Serra: Sequence

January 28, 2019–Ongoing
Rodin's Gates of Hell
Outdoor Sculpture

The B. Gerald Cantor Rodin Sculpture Garden