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Arts & Life
A 1-gallon Kikkoman Soy Sauce tin (left) next to Shih’s sculpture of the same product (right). (Photo: Amazon.com, Art: Stephanie Shih)

Stephanie Shih’s food ceramics and Asian American nostalgia

Emily Zhang
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May 22, 2020
Arts & Life
The Stanford Quarantine Gallery Instagram page (Photo: Stanford Quarantine Gallery)

Quarantine Gallery SU: Sharing student art during social distancing

Noah DeWald
  •  
May 19, 2020
Photos
(Photo: VICTORIA CHIEK/The Stanford Daily)

Tracing body heat in a scorching mansion

Victoria Chiek
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May 10, 2020
Arts & Life
An AstroTurf island that’s part of Miao Ying’s VR experience ‘Hardcore Digital Detox’ (2018). (Art: Miao Ying)

Miao Ying’s playful take on the Chinese internet

Emily Zhang
  •  
May 7, 2020
Photos
(Photo: MANUEL GARZARON)

Boredom in Quarantine

Manuel Garzaron
  •  
May 3, 2020
Arts & Life
Yannie Tan '23 plays Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 by Franz Liszt in her 2017 viral "Cat Concerto" video featuring her piano performance and Tom and Jerry (Photo: Youtube)

Artist Spotlight: Yannie Tan ’23 on being an experimental musician, Youtube creator

Nadia Jo
  •  
April 27, 2020
Arts & Life
Figure 1: A group of wire sculptures by Ruth Asawa at the David Zwirner gallery in New York, similar to the one currently on loan at the Cantor. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

The new abnormal: ‘Untitled’ by Ruth Asawa

Jasmine Liu
  •  
April 15, 2020
Arts & Life
The rooftop of the McMurtry Building for the Department of Arts & Art History, and the inside of the Cantor Arts Center. (Photo: Chasity Hale/The Stanford Daily)

Museums from Home

Chasity Hale
  •  
April 13, 2020
Arts & Life
(Painting: Edvard Munch)

Lost colors and the fading scream

Carissa Lee
  •  
April 1, 2020
Arts & Life
Victorian Mourning Cabinet

Mesmerized by ‘The Melancholy Museum’

Dax Duong
  •  
Oct. 2, 2019
Arts & Life
At Root Division in San Francisco, Stanford senior Vivienne Le exhibits "Five Sisters," an installation of sculptures inspired by her nail technician mother and Vietnamese heritage. (Photo: Vivienne Le)

Beautifying labor, celebrating craft: Vivienne Le’s ‘Five Sisters’

Khuyen Le
  •  
Sept. 26, 2019
Arts & Life
Visitors of Stanford's Cantor Arts Center observe video images in BLKNWS, a work of art crafted by Kahlil Joseph. (Photo: L.A. CICERO/Stanford News)

BLKNWS videos bring campus a new perspective on black representation in media

Jasmine Venet
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Sept. 4, 2019
Arts & Life
William McGregor Paxton’s “The Crystal” depicts the artist’s wife cradling a luminous crystal ball. The absence of the subject’s reflection in the mirror could indicate the portrait is not meant to be a faithful rendering of the subject or the scene, but rather a means for capturing a mood or advertising wealth. (Photo: VANI MOHINDRA/The Stanford Daily)

Gilded Age art at Cantor provokes viewers to rethink stereotypes about the era

Vani Mohindra
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Sept. 3, 2019
Arts & Life
Work from Lewis Watts, among other Bay Area photographers, was on display at the McMurtry Building's Coulter Art Gallery from Aug. 1 to 30. (Photo: ANISHI PATEL/The Stanford Daily)

‘Photography Teaches’ features Bay Area artists’ work in Coulter Art Gallery

Anishi Patel
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Sept. 3, 2019
Arts & Life
1301PE celebrates it’s 25 years of posters with an exhibition at Stanford Art Center, displaying a complete history of its work. (BRIAN LEE/The Stanford Daily)

Q&A: Brian Butler, founder of LA art gallery 1301PE

Brian Lee
  •  
Aug. 6, 2019
Arts & Life
Five chandelier-like models hang in Josiah McElheny’s "Island Universe" exhibition, which combines art and science to explain five potential ways that the universe is expanding. (BRIAN LEE/The Stanford Daily)

‘Island Universe’ at Cantor models theories of our existence

Brian Lee
  •  
July 21, 2019
Culture
Stanford students created Calico Cards, a watercolor-stencil card-making kit that anyone, regardless of painting skill, can use (courtesy of Eli Goodman).

Stanford students make Calico Cards, unique watercolor kits for fans of crafts

Dax Duong
  •  
May 17, 2019
Culture
Josiah McElheny's imposing installation "Island Universes" is now on display at the Cantor Arts Center (courtesy of Stephen White).

New Cantor exhibitions inspire thought and awe in viewers

Dax Duong
  •  
April 11, 2019
"Michael Richards: Winged" is on view at the Stanford Art Gallery through March 24 (HENRIK KAM/The Michael Richards Estate).

Curators Alex Fialho and Melissa Levin on rediscovering Michael Richards’ work

Amir Abou-Jaoude
  •  
Jan. 31, 2019
Many pieces at the fall 2018 Open Studios explored the intersection of art and technology (ANGELA YANG/The Stanford Daily).

Open Studios highlights myriad connections between the abstract and the everyday

Angela Yang
  •  
Jan. 29, 2019
The Stanford Daily

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