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Cantor Arts Center Excursion

Join the Asian Art Museum as we venture out to explore the Bay Area arts scene! 

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Thursday, Jan 16, 2025 

Palo Alto, CA 

$150 Registration Fee 

Participants will spend the day traveling with the Asian Art Museum’s head of contemporary art Abby Chen to the Cantor Arts Center for a private tour of Spirit House led by curator Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander and artist Binh Danh. Following a group lunch with Binh, participants will have the opportunity to be among the first to experience two new solo shows opening Jan. 11 at Qualia Contemporary Art Gallery (details coming soon). 

This new benefit provides unique access to households who support the museum with $10,000 or more each year to spend the day with curators, artists, and art enthusiasts in an intimate setting for a deeper dive into the Bay Area arts scene. 

Schedule 

9AM | Depart from the Asian Art Museum
10AM | Cantor Arts Center
Noon | Lunch
2PM | Qualia Gallery 
4PM | Arrive back at the Asian Art Museum

Inclusions 
  • Travel to all excursion sites, departing from the Asian Art Museum
  • Entrance and private tour fees to all included sites
  • Group lunch in Palo Alto 

Households who support the museum with $10,000 or more each year are invited to register for this exclusive, local day trip. 

 

Upgrade today to enhance your already world-class benefits with exciting offerings that put you in direct connection with the artists, curators, and luminaries who reflect the modern and forward-looking Asian Art Museum. I hope you will consider deepening your support of the museum today. 

 

For help registering, to join, or to upgrade, email [email protected]. 
The Cantor Arts Center

Serving the Stanford campus, the Bay Area community, and visitors from around the world, the Cantor Arts Center provides opportunities for all visitors to connect with a diverse collection of art, special exhibitions, and public programs. Founded when the university opened in 1891, the historic museum was expanded and renamed in 1999 for lead donors Iris and B. Gerald Cantor. The Cantor’s collection spans 5,000 years and includes almost 42,000 works of art from around the globe. 

  • Artist Binh Danh

    Binh Danh reconfigures traditional photographic techniques and processes in unconventional ways to delve into the connection between history, identity, and place. Danh is noted for his contemporary daguerreotypes of national parks. Their reflective surfaces enable people of all backgrounds to see themselves as a part of the beauty of the American landscape. His work has been collected by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the San Jose Museum of Art, among others. “Binh Danh: The Enigma of Belonging” was the inaugural recipient of the Minami Book Grant for Asian American Visual Artists at Radius Books in 2023. He is an associate professor of art at San José State University. 

  • Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander

    Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander oversees the collection of modern and contemporary art at the Cantor Arts Center. At the Cantor, she is the curator of Spirit House (2024), Livien Yin: Thirsty (2024), East of the Pacific: Making Histories of Asian American Art (2022), and The Faces of Ruth Asawa (2022). Her accompanying catalogue to Spirit House is the museum’s first major publication of the AAAI. Alexander leads the AAAI’s curatorial program and collection building, working with artists, artist estates, galleries, and collectors. 

  • Abby Chen

    Abby Chen manages the museum’s contemporary art team, oversees an expanding contemporary art program, and forges partnerships with local and international artists. She recently curated Into View: Bernice Bing (2022) and Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk (2022) at the Asian Art Museum. Chen is also the curator for the Taiwan Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale entitled Everyday War, and co-curator of the inaugural American Pavilion at the 2024 Gwangju Biennale entitled Rhythmic Vibrations.

 

Images: Top: Cantor Arts Center. Stanford. Binh Headshot by Erin De Jauregui. 

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