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Blackboard brings together works that imitate, resemble, or feature a blackboard, to consider the relationship between art and education. The “blackboards” on view interrogate schooling, authority, literacy, form, and color. Drawing on the Cantor’s permanent collection, the exhibition features work by Raymond Saunders, Jasper Johns, Laura Volkerding, and Enrique Chagoya. Curated by Yinshi Lerman-Tan, PhD candidate in the Stanford Department of Art & Art History, Blackboard will be a part of the 50 State Initiative organized by For Freedoms, a platform for artists and museums to encourage civic...

FINAL WEEKS CLOSES JANUARY 6

Photographs by Andy Warhol that have never before been displayed publicly are at the heart of the exhibition Contact Warhol: Photography Without End,which draws on a trove of over 130,000 photographic exposures that the Cantor Arts Center acquired from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in 2014. The collection of 3,600 contact sheets and corresponding negatives represent the complete range of Warhol’s black-and-white photographic practice from 1976 until his unexpected death in 1987.

The exhibition brings to life Warhol’s many interactions with the...

Kahlil Joseph, a visiting artist in the new Presidential Residencies on the Future of the Arts program, presents BLKNWS, a two-channel video projection that is displayed at the Cantor, the dining hall in Lagunita and, Harmony House. It is also on view at the Venice Biennale. The broadcast project blurs the lines between art, journalism, entrepreneurship, and cultural critique.

Learn more about the Cantor Arts Center and Stanford University incubating Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS

This exhibition is organized by the Cantor Arts Center. The residency is hosted in collaboration with the Institute for...