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The Leland Quarterly "LQ" logo is in big read letters against a white background. There is a Stanford tree in the Q.

Literary magazine Leland Quarterly opens doors to creative expression and student publication

Katie Small
  •  
Dec. 6, 2024
Culture
A table with a dozen boba drinks of different flavors

Art & Boba spill creativity at Cantor

Maria Chica
  •  
Feb. 29, 2024
The Grind
Panels of modern paintings.

Contemplations on modern art

Lara Seyahi
  •  
Feb. 27, 2024
The Grind
Three panels of paintings by Sam Francis.

Contemplations on Sam Francis’s art

Lara Seyahi
  •  
Feb. 25, 2024
Culture
A bright, empty art gallery with a bean bag in the center.

Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition: Our bodies without disguise

Linda Liu
  •  
Oct. 19, 2023
Culture
A colorful painting of a young couple wearing summer clothes, with a Chinese painting in the background

Your art world questions answered: What are some of Cantor’s recent acquisitions?

Christina Shen
  •  
Nov. 13, 2022
Culture
An oil painting in which an anime girl is eating a forkful of food and another real woman on her right is holding a forkful of cake to the audience. In front of them is a table full of burgers and sweets.

L. Song Wu’s ‘Gleaming Things’ is a provocative study of the fictional and self

Alexandra Blum
  •  
Nov. 10, 2022
Culture
Two plaster hands extending out of the water touch the buildings near by

Your art world questions answered: What are art fairs and art biennials?

Christina Shen
  •  
Oct. 30, 2022
The Grind
Art professor crouched while drawing on a brown canvas the sketch of a body.

Tales from teachers: Process over product

Aya Aziz
  •  
Oct. 3, 2022
The Grind
A collage of images from Kyla Figueroa's 2020 bullet journal.

In 2020, I made a bullet journal. Here’s how it went.

Kyla Figueroa
  •  
Jan. 31, 2021
Arts & Life
A glimpse into the Art of Science 2020 3D VR gallery walkthrough. (Screenshot from Art of Science)

Creative reencounters with research in Art of Science 2020 Exhibition

Carly Taylor
  •  
June 11, 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
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
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
  •  
Sept. 4, 2019
Rene Magritte's "Empire of Light" (courtesy of the Guggenheim Museum).

New modes of being: Reflections on Magritte and Sappho

Carly Taylor
  •  
Oct. 18, 2018
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Together and apart: Fragmentation and completion in Auguste Rodin

Emma Heath
  •  
April 25, 2018
Courtesy of Flickr

teamLab challenges our experience of art

Chloe Barreau
  •  
Nov. 28, 2017
Courtesy of The Getty Museum

‘About Face’: Your face, my face and our faces together in art

Julia Gordon
  •  
Nov. 19, 2017
(Photo: King of Hearts/Wikimedia Commons)

Fun on the Farm: Twenty-five years of Earth systems

Claire Thompson
  •  
Nov. 15, 2017
The Stanford Daily

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