Current Exhibitions

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An image of Rothko's "Pink and White over Red," depicting a red faded square with a white square inside in the top third portion of it, with faded edges that turn to pink.

Temporary Exhibition

The Anderson Collection at the Cantor

May 12, 2021–August 15, 2021

This installation celebrates a special loan of five highlights of American abstract painting from the Anderson Collection at Stanford...

Still from Emissary Sunsets The Self, 2017. Live simulation and story.

Ongoing Exhibition

Ian Cheng: Emissary Sunsets The Self

June 30, 2021–

Emissary Sunsets The Self explores cognitive evolution and the conditions that shape it. Created with a video game engine, the work...

An image of Rothko's "Pink and White over Red," depicting a red faded square with a white square inside in the top third portion of it, with faded edges that turn to pink.

Temporary Exhibition

The Anderson Collection at the Cantor

May 12, 2021–August 15, 2021

An image of the Roman Forum in the 19th century.

Temporary Exhibition

Exquisite Reality: Photography and the Invention of Nationhood, 1851–1900

March 29, 2021–March 31, 2022

Ongoing Exhibitions

Artist unknown (Greece), Relief of a Warrior, n.d. Marble. Gift of Esther de Lemos Morton, Margaret de Lemos Lyon, and Marie J. Storm, 1962.26

Ongoing Exhibition

Aura: Art and Authenticity

May 14, 2020–

Ongoing Exhibition

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

September 18, 2019–

Ongoing Exhibition

Richard Diebenkorn at the Cantor

September 4, 2019–

Ongoing Exhibition

Richard Serra’s Sequence Returns

January 28, 2019–

Memories

Ongoing Exhibition

In Dialogue: African Arts

Betelgeuse

Ongoing Exhibition

New to the Cantor: Spencer Finch

An image depicting "Flowers in a Glass Vase," by Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder

Ongoing Exhibition

Object Lessons: Art & Its Histories

OY/YO is now on display at the Cantor!

Ongoing Exhibition

OY/YO

Auguste Rodin

Ongoing Exhibition

Rodin: The Shock of the Modern Body