STANFORD, Calif. — A small gallery at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center is currently offering a deeply personal glimpse into the life and work of Bay Area artist Richard Diebenkorn. Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed is a tiny yet tremendously exciting exhibition that makes public for the first time works drawn from the influential artist’s 29 never-before-seen sketchbooks. The pieces on view, a thoughtful selection of 95 works — including 83 of the 1,045 drawings found in the sketchbooks — reveal an artist who was captivated by the quotidian details of life … Continue Reading ››

SAN FRANCISCO — “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me […] It is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass,” Ralph Ellison’s narrator declares in Invisible Man. “When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.” Published in the early 1950s but set during the Harlem Renaissance, Invisible Man unfolds as a cascading exploration of what it means to be looked at and looked through; ‘hidden’ in plain sight, the narrator … Continue Reading ››