Veronica Roberts is the John and Jill Freidenrich Director of the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. She joined the Cantor in July 2022 after holding curatorial positions at the Blanton Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Whitney Museum. Day Jobs, an exhibition she curated, will open at the Cantor in March 2024. Conceived as a corrective […]

Michele Oka Doner is an artist whose work is fueled by a lifelong study and appreciation of the natural world, from which she derives her formal vocabulary. Her artistic production includes sculpture, drawing, public art, functional objects, video, artist books, and costume and set design. She has created numerous permanent art installations throughout the world, including Radiant […]

In the 1950s and ’60s, Coenties Slip—an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan overlooking the East River—was home to several extraordinary, then-struggling artists: Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, and Jack Youngerman. For just over a decade, this street of dilapidated sail-making lofts and maritime warehouses […]

Jonathan Lyndon Chase (b. 1989, Philadelphia, PA) is an interdisciplinary artist who works in painting, video, sound, and sculpture to depict queer Black love and community. Rendered through layers of bright, visceral paint, make-up and glitter, Chase’s figures are suspended in various forms of articulation amidst the backdrop of urban and domestic spaces. These dynamic compositions […]