Highlights from the Marmor Collection
The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University is delighted to announce the most significant reinstallation of the museum鈥檚 second floor in more than fifteen years. Culminating this fall with the opening of five separate galleries that have been re-envisioned as spaces for investigation by the university community and the public alike, this project is born of sustained collaboration between Stanford faculty and museum curators, who together have thought seriously about the tremendous value of learning about art objects through firsthand study.
At Stanford, the arts and sciences comingle productively: In classrooms, labs, studios, and offices across campus, pioneering thinkers鈥攊n the sciences and technology, as well as in the arts and humanities鈥攁re proposing innovative takes on historical phenomena and advancing new understandings of the human condition. Drawing inspiration from and building on this energy, the museum is proud to foster engaging encounters with works of art that reveal fresh insights on the world around us and the experiences and expressions that bind past and present.
Alison Gass, the Cantor鈥檚 Chief Curator and Associate Director for Exhibitions and Collections, said that the museum鈥檚 interdisciplinary approach will be on full view this fall in Object Lessons: Art & Its Histories, Highlights from the Marmor Collection and a series of focused exhibitions titled New to the Cantor. 鈥淪teeped in the awareness that all art objects were once contemporary and reflect the context of their creation, these presentations are dedicated to the examination of artworks as revelatory primary sources,鈥� Gass explained. 鈥淎cross the museum, familiar favorites and never-before-seen objects promise to provoke new discussions
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The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University is delighted to announce the most significant reinstallation of the museum鈥檚 second floor in more than fifteen years. Culminating this fall with the opening of five separate galleries that have been re-envisioned as spaces for investigation by the university community and the public alike, this project is born of sustained collaboration between Stanford faculty and museum curators, who together have thought seriously about the tremendous value of learning about art objects through firsthand study.
At Stanford, the arts and sciences comingle productively: In classrooms, labs, studios, and offices across campus, pioneering thinkers鈥攊n the sciences and technology, as well as in the arts and humanities鈥攁re proposing innovative takes on historical phenomena and advancing new understandings of the human condition. Drawing inspiration from and building on this energy, the museum is proud to foster engaging encounters with works of art that reveal fresh insights on the world around us and the experiences and expressions that bind past and present.
Alison Gass, the Cantor鈥檚 Chief Curator and Associate Director for Exhibitions and Collections, said that the museum鈥檚 interdisciplinary approach will be on full view this fall in Object Lessons: Art & Its Histories, Highlights from the Marmor Collection and a series of focused exhibitions titled New to the Cantor. 鈥淪teeped in the awareness that all art objects were once contemporary and reflect the context of their creation, these presentations are dedicated to the examination of artworks as revelatory primary sources,鈥� Gass explained. 鈥淎cross the museum, familiar favorites and never-before-seen objects promise to provoke new discussions
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