A new one-year arts fellowship program at Stanford signals a shift in focus for the institute to research and teaching. The subject of Creative Cities will be explored from multidisciplinary angles.
In the constellation of libraries at Stanford, the Ute & Bill Bowes Art & Architecture Library is the newest star. The Bowes Library beckons students, faculty, staff and registered visitors with its heavy books, its colorful wall of periodicals, its treasure chest – otherwise known as its special collections room – and its upholstered armchairs, couches and benches.
Chris Lorway has been named the new executive director of Stanford Live and Bing Concert Hall. Currently director, programming and marketing, of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall – home of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto International Film Festival – Lorway will assume the position in late summer.
Four Stanford dance faculty members created four new dance works, showing how dance interacts and engages with space in different ways. The performances are slated for May 26-27 in Memorial Auditorium.
Through interviews coupled with archival research, Stanford’s Jindong Cai researched the history of Beethoven’s popularity in China in hopes of creating cultural connections between China and the West.
Using the Hellboy series as a touchstone, film and media studies Professor Scott Bukatman has discovered new ways to talk about comics while offering a heightened "adventure of reading."
