Holland Cotter Lecture: May 17, 6 pm
Don't miss NY Times art critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Holland Cotter. The Wilsey Distinguised Lecturer
will discuss Critical Consciousness: Art and the World. Annenberg Auditorium, Cummings Art Building, Stanford University. FREE, with open seating. Learn more

Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley
Opens May 16
Discover the Benue River Valley, source of some of the most abstract, dramatic, and inventive sculpture in Africa. See objects used in a range of ritual contexts, with genres as varied and complex as the vast region itself—figurative wood sculptures, masks, figurative ceramic vessels, and elaborate bronze and iron regalia—in a groundbreaking exhibition that demonstrates how the history of central Nigeria can be “unmasked” through the dynamic interrelationships of its peoples and their arts. Press release, programs, tours, catalogue

Light Works: Dan Flavin and Robert Irwin
Through July 8
This installation features two large pieces. One by Dan Flavin uses mass-produced fluorescent light. The second work, an untitled disc by Robert Irwin, typifies the interest in light and space that occupied a number of artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Learn more

Memory and Markets: Pueblo Painting in the Early 20th Century
Through May 27
In the early 20th century, a new movement of Native American painting emerged in the Pueblo communities of the Southwestern United States. Recording past and current scenes of their daily life on paper, Pueblo artists used as their inspiration the centuries-old tradition of Pueblo painting, found in pottery, murals, and archaeological remains. Learn more