Showcases for Art in Silicon Valley: at Stanford University, an Arts District Grows
The new Anderson Collection, at rear, by Richard Olcott of Ennead Architects, is part of a growing arts district on the Stanford University campus.
Tim Griffith for Ennead Architects
Art History, Art Practice, Design, Documentary Film and Video, Film and Media Studies
PALO ALTO, Calif. — The birthplace of Yahoo and Google, Stanford University is now ramping up and showing off its cultural resources.
Construction of a $235 million arts district near Palm Drive, the grand tree-lined campus entrance, is well underway here. Last year, the $112 million Bing Concert Hall opened. This year came the $36 million Anderson Collection, a new American-art museum designed to showcase paintings by Pollock, Rothko and Diebenkorn. Next up is the $87 million McMurtry Building for the art and art history department, to open in 2015.
