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The Cantor provides a variety of learning opportunities for the Stanford community and beyond. We welcome anyone interested in engaging with our exhibitions, collections, and resources, including students, faculty, researchers, and school educators.

Student Programs

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Faculty Programs

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K–12 Resources

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Research & Explore

Dive deeper into our collections through a research visit, or explore our digital archive of programs and audio guides.

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Publications

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Cantor Arts Center

The Melancholy Museum

Gallery Guide

Using over 700 items from the Stanford Family Collections, artist Mark Dion’s exhibition "The Melancholy Museum" explores how Leland Stanford Jr.’s death at age 15 led to the creation of a museum, university, and—by extension—the entire Silicon Valley.

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Crossing the Caspian

Exhibition Brochure

Explore the cultural exchanges between the Safavid Empire in Persia and Europe in Crossing the Caspian.

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Jacob Lawrence

Exhibition Catalog

Explore a gift of drawings, prints, and paintings by African American modernist Jacob Lawrence addressing Black history and civil rights, public life, faith, and creativity.

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Aura: Art and Authenticity

Exhibition Brochure

This Mellon curatorial research assistantship project reveals new insights about objects in the Cantor’s collection in order to demonstrate the complexity of labels such as “authentic,” “fake,” and “forgery.”

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The Capital Group Foundation Photography Collection

At Stanford University

The Capital Group Foundation Photography Collection at Stanford University consists of more than one thousand twentieth-century photographs highlighting seven masters of photography.

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Anderson Collection at Stanford University

Left of Center

Exhibition Catalog

Curated by Stanford PhD Candidates, Left of Center seeks to show how modes of art-making that originated on the West Coast decisively changed the topography of American modernism.

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Manuel Neri

and the Assertion of Modern Figurative Sculpture

Representing the breadth of the artist’s oeuvre, this book offers insights into the development of Manuel Neri’s sculpture and a fresh perspective on his contributions to contemporary art.

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A Family Affair

Feature Essays

Explore the Andersons' journey of art discovery made possible with the guidance of two prominent Stanford University professors—Albert E. Elsen and Nathan Oliveira—as well as Henry Sayles Francis, a retired curator from the Cleveland Museum of Art, and Helen Heninger, who developed the Andersons’ first working collection plan.

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 Essays on Modern and Contemporary Art from the Anderson Collection at Stanford University

Formed and Fired

This brochure is published on the occasion of Formed and Fired: Contemporary American Ceramics, curated by Jason Linetzky, Director, and organized by the Anderson Collection at Stanford University.

The museum extends its deepest gratitude to the artists and lenders.

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Hostile Terrain 94

This publication is written entirely by students at Stanford University, and includes essays from graduate students Koji Lau-Ozawa, a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology; Jon Ayon Alonso, MFA candidate in Documentary Film and Video Studies; and undergraduate students Ekalan Hou, Melissa Santos, and Georgia Gardner.

The installation will be on display in the first floor of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University upon reopening and through the Spring of 2021.

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Hostile Terrain 94 exhibition brochure