The Cantor Spring Schedule

May 2007
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Pick of the Month
Exhibitions
Events
Members Only

PICK OF THE MONTH
Opens May 30
Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World
This is the first major U.S. exhibition to examine Tuareg art, culture, and history, and it features more than 200 objects, including jewelry, clothing, leatherwork, and other distinctive items of these semi-nomadic North African people of Niger, Mali, and Algeria.




EXHIBITIONS
On view through July 1
Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks
A retrospective of the works of the late Gordon Parks featuring 73 works chosen specifically by Parks as examples of his most potent imagery.






Last chance - on view through May 6
In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon
20th-Anniversary tour ends at the Cantor Arts Center. View 63 of Avedon's oversized images of working-class Westerners.






Now open
Living Traditions: Arts of the America
Exciting commissions of new Northwest Coast art go on view, in addition to important Mesoamerican works that compliment the Center's unique collection.






EVENTS
Films
Thurs, May 17, 6 pm
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
2000, 90 minutes
Directed by Craig Rice, narrated by Alfre Woodard
Introduction by Jan Krawitz, Documentary Film Studies, Art and Art History, Stanford University
Cantor Arts Center Auditorium

Fri, May 18, 7 pm
Shaft
1971, 100 minutes
Directed by Gordon Parks
Introduction by Scott Bukatman, Film and Media Studies, Art and Art History, Stanford University
Annenberg Auditorium, Cummings Art Building

Lectures
Thurs, May 10, 5:30 pm
Art History Lecture Series
Rachael DeLue, Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Cummings Art Building, Room 2, cosponsored by Cantor Arts Center

Performances
Thurs, May 10 and 24, 6 pm
Dance Performance
Step on the Grass
Stanford Dance Division, South Lawn
Faculty Choice
Wed, May 16, ongoing at various times through May 23
Janice Ross presents People-Various
Cantor Arts Center lobby

Free Tours
- Introducing the Cantor Arts Center: Saturdays and Sundays, 1 pm
- Rodin collection: Wednesdays at 2 pm, Saturdays at 11:30, Sundays at 3 pm
- Outdoor Sculpture Walk: First Sunday of each month at 2 pm. Meet at the Main Quad entrance where The Oval meets Serra Street
- New Guinea Sculpture Garden: Third Sunday of the Month, 2 pm. Meet on the corner of Santa Teresa and Lomita Drive