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‘Edmonia Lewis: Indelible Impressions’
Three neoclassical marble sculptures carved by 19th-century American sculptor Edmonia Lewis – Asleep, Awake and Bust of Abraham Lincoln – are on view at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center starting Sept. 17. Lewis, according to the museum’s website, was born in New York, of Ojibwe and African descent, and left the U.S. for Europe in 1866, eventually opening an art studio in Rome, Italy. In 1873, she brought her sculptures to display on a trip to the Bay Area, where they reportedly made quite an impression on the local art scene. The Stanford exhibition is the first time these works have been shown in a museum in three decades, according to the Cantor.Â
Sept. 17-Jan. 4, Wednesdays and Fridays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursdays 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford; free; museum.stanford.edu.
3rdThursday
Get ready to move at Palo Alto’s monthly live music event, which on Sept. 18 features the theme “Let’s Dance,” and a lineup that will inspire just that. Along California Avenue, visitors can catch swing and jazz with Top Shelf Big Band, classic rock with The Wanderers and jazz with Charged Particles. 3rdThursday kicks off early at 5 p.m, with a world dance expo, a performance of international dance curated by Mosaic America, as well as dance lessons, according to a Facebook post about the event. Plus, at 6:45 and 7:45 p.m., there will be line dancing hosted by Catholic Line Dancers.
Sept. 18, bands play between 6 and 9 p.m., with world dance expo taking place 5-6:30 p.m, along California Avenue, Palo Alto; free; 3rdthursday.fun.
Cold War Computing
Tetris, the 1980s puzzle game developed by a Soviet engineer, may have been one of most well-known examples of computing to come from behind the Iron Curtain, but there was a lot more going on in electronics there during the Cold War than those in the West might have guessed at the time. In his book, “Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing,” historian and professor Victor Petrov delves into how Soviet-era Bulgaria was a center for innovation in tech. He’ll discuss his book in a talk at the Computer History Museum that explores the “coded ambition, hidden trade tunnels and a cyber-elite that reshaped Cold War geopolitics,” according to an event description. This talk is offered in person and virtually.
Sept. 18, 7 p.m., at the Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View; admission is free (both in person and online); computerhistory.org.
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