Editing Stanford University (section)

=== Arts ===
[[File:Les-bourgeois-de-Calais.jpg|thumb|left|Bronze statues by [[Auguste Rodin]] are scattered throughout the campus, including these ''[[The Burghers of Calais|Burghers of Calais]]'']]

Stanford is home to the [[Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts|Cantor Center for Visual Arts]], a museum established with the help of art collector [[B. Gerald Cantor]]. It today consists of twenty-four galleries, sculpture gardens, terraces, and a courtyard first established in 1891 by Jane and Leland Stanford as a memorial to their only child. The university's collection of works by [[Auguste Rodin]] is among the largest in the world,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://museum.stanford.edu/view/rodin.html |title=Rodin! The Complete Stanford Collection |publisher=Cantor Arts Center |access-date=April 16, 2014 |archive-date=May 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513153638/http://museum.stanford.edu/view/rodin.html |url-status=live }}</ref> with as many as 200 sculptures at the Cantor Center alone. These include an original bronze cast of ''[[The Thinker]]'' granted residence at Stanford by Cantor in 1988, with the university expected to attain full ownership sometime in the future. The Stanford ''Thinker'' has been loaned for viewing around the world and features across the university's iconography and culture,<ref>[https://stanforddaily.com/2012/01/24/rodins-iconic-sculpture-the-thinker-returns-to-stanford/ "Rodin’s iconic sculpture, ‘The Thinker,’ returns to Stanford"] ''The Stanford Daily'', 24 January 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2024.</ref><ref>[https://stanfordmag.org/contents/hmmm-where-did-he-go "Hmmm . . . Where Did He Go?"] ''Stanford Magazine'', April 2002. Retrieved 2024.</ref> including the logo of the ''Encyclopedia of Philosophy.''

The [[Thomas Welton Stanford]] Gallery, which was built in 1917, serves as a teaching resource for the Department of Art & Art History as well as an exhibition venue. In 2014, Stanford opened the Anderson Collection, a new museum focused on postwar American art and founded by the donation of 121 works by food service moguls Mary and [[Harry W. Anderson|Harry Anderson]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Drohojowska-Philp |first=Hunter |title=Stanford's Anderson Collection museum to feature trove of couple's art |location=[[Atherton, CA]] |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=July 11, 2014 |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-ca-hunk-moo-stanford-anderson-collection-20140713-story.html |access-date=May 10, 2020 |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807082042/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-ca-hunk-moo-stanford-anderson-collection-20140713-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Whiting |first=Sam |title=Anderson Collection pieces lock in a home at Stanford |date=September 12, 2014 |publisher=SFGate |url=https://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Anderson-Collection-pieces-lock-in-a-home-at-5747113.php |access-date=May 10, 2020 |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807090027/https://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Anderson-Collection-pieces-lock-in-a-home-at-5747113.php |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Teicholz |first=Tom |title=The Museum of Hunk, Moo & Putter: The Anderson Collection at Stanford will Rock You |date=December 28, 2018 |newspaper=[[Forbes]] |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2018/12/28/the-museum-of-hunk-moo-putter-the-anderson-collection-at-stanford-will-rock-you/#415d93fb1408 |access-date=May 10, 2020 |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807092922/https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2018/12/28/the-museum-of-hunk-moo-putter-the-anderson-collection-at-stanford-will-rock-you/#415d93fb1408 |url-status=live }}</ref> There are outdoor art installations throughout the campus, primarily sculptures, but some murals as well. The Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden near Roble Hall features wood carvings and "[[totem pole]]s".

The Stanford music department sponsors many ensembles, including five choirs, the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, [[Stanford Taiko]], and the Stanford Wind Ensemble. Extracurricular activities include theater groups such as Ram's Head Theatrical Society, the Stanford Improvisors,<ref>{{cite web |title=The Stanford Improvisors |url=http://stanfordimprovisors.com/ |access-date=March 11, 2022 |website=Stanford.edu |archive-date=March 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320045339/https://www.stanfordimprovisors.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the Stanford Shakespeare Company, and the Stanford Savoyards, a group dedicated to performing the works of [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]. Stanford is also host to [[List of Stanford University a cappella groups|ten ''a cappella'' groups]], including the [[Stanford Mendicants|Mendicants]] (Stanford's first),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stanfordmendicants.com/ |title=About the Mendicants |access-date=July 22, 2012 |archive-date=February 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223025408/https://www.stanfordmendicants.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Stanford Counterpoint|Counterpoint]] (the first all-female group on the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]]),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/Counterpoint/ |title=About Counterpoint |access-date=July 22, 2012 |archive-date=July 1, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701024619/http://web.stanford.edu/group/Counterpoint/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Stanford Harmonics|the Harmonics]], the [[Stanford Fleet Street Singers]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fleetstreet.com/about |title=About Fleet Street |access-date=August 29, 2017 |archive-date=August 30, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830104314/https://www.fleetstreet.com/about |url-status=dead}} Because Fleet Street maintains Stanford songs as a regular part of its performing repertoire, the university used the group as ambassadors during the university's centennial celebration and commissioned an album, entitled ''Up Toward Mountains Higher'' (1999), of Stanford songs which were sent to alumni around the world.</ref> [[Talisman A Cappella|Talisman]], [[Stanford Everyday People|Everyday People]], [[Stanford Raagapella|and Raagapella]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.raagapella.com/ |title=About Raagapella |access-date=August 25, 2012 |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126074814/http://www.raagapella.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

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