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Current Exhibitions

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Ongoing Exhibition
A Mark Dion Project

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

September 18, 2019–

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OY/YO is now on display at the Cantor!
Ongoing Exhibition
Major new acquisition announces Cantor’s new direction

OY/YO

NOW ON VIEW!

Across its galleries, the Cantor is enacting a new vision to act as a gathering place for diverse ideas and to present art...

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⁠Jennifer Steinkamp (U.S.A., b.1958), Still-Life 1, 2016. Video installation. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul. L.20.1.2019
Temporary Exhibition

Still-Life 1

February 26, 2020–July 27, 2020
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Temporary Exhibition

Crossing the Caspian: Persia and Europe, 1500–1700

January 22, 2020–April 26, 2020
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Temporary Exhibition

Outside Looking In: John Gutmann, Helen Levitt, and Wright Morris

January 22, 2020–April 26, 2020
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Temporary Exhibition

A Gift of Art from Marilyn F. Symmes

November 20, 2019–May 18, 2020
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Temporary Exhibition

Surf Sequence by Ansel Adams

November 20, 2019–May 18, 2020

Ongoing Exhibitions

Ongoing Exhibition

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

September 18, 2019–
OY/YO is now on display at the Cantor!
Ongoing Exhibition

OY/YO

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Ongoing Exhibition

Richard Diebenkorn at the Cantor

September 4, 2019–
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Ongoing Exhibition

The Medium Is the Message: Art since 1950

February 23, 2019–
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Ongoing Exhibition

Richard Serra’s Sequence Returns

January 28, 2019–
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Temporary Exhibition

Do Ho Suh: The Spaces in Between

May 10, 2018–
Memories
Ongoing Exhibition

In Dialogue: African Arts

Betelgeuse
Ongoing Exhibition

New to the Cantor: Spencer Finch

Portrait of Sally Fairchild
Ongoing Exhibition

Object Lessons: Art & Its Histories

Auguste Rodin
Ongoing Exhibition

Rodin: The Shock of the Modern Body

I AM AN
Ongoing Exhibition

Stephanie Syjuco: “I AM AN…”

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