The long-anticipated institution, adjacent to the Cantor Arts Center, features a formidable cache of modern and contemporary art and certifies the Bay Areas growing international stature as a destination for lovers and scholars of 20th and 21st century visual arts. The Bay Area has glimpsed other outstanding private collections recently, but in level of ambition and accomplishment, only the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts Donald and Doris Fisher Collection - set to debut in full in 2016 - can rival the Stanford trove. A long staircase - its gentle slope making for a comfortable ascent - leads the eye directly upward to Stills 1957-J No. 1, a 12-foot-long abstract painting that appears expansive as a movie screen. At many points in the galleries, along sightlines that stretch across the central staircase through well-ordered gaps in interior vertical walls, artworks transmit echoes of homage or other aesthetic kinship. The buildings first floor holds a small orientation gallery, containing photographic portraits of many artists represented in the collection, a resource center accommodating a large portion of the Andersons art library, and nonpublic office and storage spaces. Having hosted a graduate student internship in art history for many years, the Andersons were keenly aware of their new projects value as a teaching museum. #SF #News #49ers
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 01:58:08 +0000
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