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A Change of Scenery: Photographs of Leisure in the Landscape

February 8–July 16, 2023

A Change of Scenery: Photographs of Leisure in the Landscape surveys ways of “being” in the landscape, encompassing common activities like sight-seeing, recreation, and play, and affective states like joy, intimacy, affinity, and belonging. Featuring approximately 55 American photographs from the 19^th and 20^th centuries from the Cantor collection depicting people in various outdoor public spaces, this single-gallery exhibition considers the importance of access to nature and leisure, what access entails, and how it shapes identity.

This exhibition is organized by the Cantor Arts Center...

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Forbes

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The Art Newspaper

Ruth Asawa made hundreds of masks of her San Francisco community—now a local museum is putting them on permanent display

Palo Alto Online

Stanford Arts District museums offer plenty for a world-class cultural staycation

Stanford News

Ruth Asawa’s clay masks find a second home at the Cantor

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Exhibition

The Marmor Collection: Color as Form in Prints, 1953–1971

August 24–November 27, 2022

This selection of American and British prints drawn from the Marmor Collection at the Cantor Arts Center highlights abstract works from the early 1950s to the 70s that explore the relationship between color and form. Artists on view include Sonia Delaunay, Sam Francis, Allan Jones, Ellsworth Kelly, and Frank Stella.