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Bring the whole family to the Cantor this holiday season! There's something for everyone--exciting exhibitions, family activities on Sundays, daily tours, a new "Highlights Guide"--plus we offer strollers, wheelchairs, and drawing kits to sign out. The Cantor is open New Year's Day, and we'll have extra days of free parking. 

I look forward to your visit. The volunteers who staff our information desks look forward to welcoming you to the Cantor. And we all wish you the happiest of holidays!

Anthony Bryan
Visitor Services Supervisor
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University  

 NEW SHOWS
   
Jim Dine and Claes Oldenburg have been linked since the early 1960s, when they both participated in "Happenings" on New York's Lower East Side. Dine and Oldenburg (now 78 and 84, respectively) are known internationally for their transformations of household items into lifelike objects with monumental qualities. This selection features approximately 20 prints in which the artists, with characteristic wit and introspection, give life to the inanimate. Learn more 
Conversation Pieces
Opens Today
Through four pairings of works on paper--human figures, botanical still lifes, nature studies, and artists' portraits--the exhibition generates pictorial dialogues revealing formal and conceptual similarities, as well as differences in technique, mood, and context. Learn more 
 
 ALSO ON VIEW
 
Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video  
On view through January 5
Tours: Thursday at 12:15 pm, Saturday & Sunday at 2 pm. This is the first major museum retrospective devoted to contemporary artist and photographer Carrie Mae Weems--widely acclaimed as one of today's most eloquent interpreters of the African American experience. Take a free tour. Learn more.
 
Flesh and Metal: Body and Machine in Early 20th-Century Art  
On view through March 16
Experience works by 50 important American and European artists, including Constantin Brancusi, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, and Pablo Picasso. Related films screen continuously; docent tour on Saturdays; lecture on January 30. Learn more 
Learn about all of the Cantor's exhibitions.
 DECEMBER EVENTS
Sundays, December 22 and 29, Cantor auditorium
Free family films starting at 12 noon, 1:30 pm, and 3 pm in lieu of Art-Making in the Studio. Learn more
 
Art Packs
Every day

Sign out free supplies for your drawing session and make your own art. Learn more

Learn about all of the Cantor's family activities.
Learn about all of the Cantor's art tours.
 HOURS, DIRECTIONS & MEMBERSHIP  
Cantor hours: Wednesday-Sunday 11 am-5 pm, Thursday until 8 pm.
CLOSED: Christmas Day, OPEN: New Year's Day
Visitor parking is free on Lomita Drive Dec 21-Jan 5 and always on weekends. 
 
Location: intersection of Museum Way and Lomita Drive on the Stanford campus, northwest of The Oval and the Main Quad. The Cantor is just one block from Palm Drive, facing the Bing Concert Hall. View a campus map 
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Images, top to bottom:

-Anthony Bryan, Visitor Services Supervisor, Cantor Arts Center.

-Claes Oldenburg (U.S.A., b. Sweden, 1929), Double Nose/Purse/Punching Bag/Ashtray, 1970. Lithograph. Lent by the Marmor Foundation. © Claes Oldenburg.

-John Constable (England, 1776-1837), Cloud Study, c. 1821-23. Pencil and watercolor. Museum Purchase Fund, 1971.33.
-Barbara Hepworth (England, 1903-1975), Curved Forms with Blue, 1946. Pencil, gouache and oil. Bequest of Dr. and Mrs. Harold C. Torbert, 1984.521. © Bowness, Hepworth Estate.
-Carrie Mae Weems. Afro-Chic (video still), 2010. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. © Carrie Mae Weems.

-Fernand Léger, Deux femmes sur fond bleu (Two Women on a Blue Background), 1927; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, fractional gift of Helen and Charles Schwab; © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris, photo: Ben Blackwell.


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