Acclaimed contemporary artist and photographer Carrie Mae Weems discusses her art on the opening day of her retrospective, Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video. Weems is a 2013MacArthur "genius grant" winner.

Critically acclaimed sculptor Deborah Butterfield (USA, b. 1949), whose bronze horse graces the Cantor's main lobby, talks about her work.

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain introduces Cantor Art Museums exhibition, Rodin in America. Le Normand-Romain, a famous and esteemed Rodin scholar, catalogs Rodin's work and life. (October 5, 2011)

Panelists give their opinions on what an ideal outcome would look like in regards to the repatriation and ownership of African art. (Janueary 21, 2012)

George Abungu defines culture and culture heritage and discusses the importance and functions that cultural heritage plays in communities and nations, as well as categorizes heritage as a human right. (January 21, 2012)

Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz talks about art history and how modernism has influenced African art in its consumption, production, understanding, and relation to African culture in the African diaspora. (January 21, 2012)

Kate Fitz Gibbon discusses legal and practical issues of the collection and repatriation of African art. Fitz Gibbon talks about the legal tools available to African nations seeking the return of some of their historical objects. (January 21, 2012)

Sylvestor Okwunodu Ogbechie talks about the relation between the repatriation of African art and cultural objects stolen during the colonial period and Africa's cultural heritage and rights to their stolen goods. (January 21, 2012)

Derek Fincham talks about using justice as a lens to look at African art, specifically the repatriation, or return, of objects from art museums to their source community, and also the decision to acquire an object. (January 21, 2012)

Barbara Thompson gives an introduction and overview of this year's Ruth K. Franklin Symposium on the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. (January 21, 2012)

Connie Wolf gives an opening welcome and background for the Ruth K. Franklin, Symposium on the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. (January 21, 2012)

Interpretations of the meaning, purpose and transformation of the Vodoun deities over the course of the legacy of the Haitian revolution. (Jan 13, 2011)

Leo Rubinfien provides a background for his photos. The common theme of his projects is urban life, globalization, and modern society. (February 2, 2011)

Mark Feldman, Stanford Humanities Center Fellow, provides a Faculty Choice guided tour of 14 works of art in the Cantor Arts Center. The pieces are all connected by a common theme of nature and surroundings. (May 17, 2010)

Three Stanford University students, Alex Fialho, Ariana Afshar, and Aryana Khan, give a short guided tour of several pieces of modern art in the Cantor Arts Center and discuss how best to personally interpret modern art. (2010)