Printing Protest explores printmaking as a means for the artistic expression of social and political protest from the sixteenth century through the present. Conversations between prints from different historical, geographical, and cultural contexts investigate continuities and evolutions in the use of prints as a tool for social criticism. Stanford students selected the included prints from the Cantor Arts Center collection.

This exhibition is organized by students in the seminar Printing Protest: The Artist as Social Critic, instructed by Natalia Lauricella, PhD, Postdoctoral Teaching...

Full Figure presents a selection of prints, drawings, paintings, photographs, and sculptures that depict the human body from head to toe. Artists including Diane Arbus, Kerry James Marshall, and Cang Xin invite us to consider their subjects’ physical presence in the world, exposing the ways they have been rendered invisible and claiming a space of their own in the history of art. The installation features many recent acquisitions on view for the first time, recent acquisitions, and familiar visitor favorites from the Cantor collection like Duane Hanson’s Slab Man (1974–1975) and Hope...