Palo Alto citizens are fortunate enough to live only few minutes away from the world class art at Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center. The Cantor has collections ranging from European to American, Asian and African to Native American and Modern as well as Contemporary art. However, the Cantor Museum is perhaps best known for its outdoor art collection, which includes works in a wide variety of media. The Cantor Arts Center is open Wednesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Though it boasts friendly docents, scrumptious food and intellectual masterpieces, the Cantor Arts Center is best known for its world class art, making it one of Stanford’s best treasures.

The Cantor Arts Center

Andy Freeberg captures female security guards watching over famous masterpieces in St. Petersburg, as he noticed that the women seemed to mimic the artworks beside them. This installation will be at the Cantor until January 6, 2013.

This exhibition features sensationalist Kiyochika Kobayashi’s battle prints, sketches by Zhang Wenyuan and photojournalism by John Gutmann. All of the artwork focuses on how the two Sino-Japanese wars were fought and will be on display until January 13, 2013.

During Adolf Hitler’s regime, modernist artists were considered “degenerates.” Now, these artists’ works are on display. The eighteen pieces of this exhibition will be on display until February 24, 2013.

These ten works range from illusionist drawings to ‘the musing of John Altoon.’ This collection will be on display until February 3, 2013.