By Cy Musiker

I got a preview Tuesday of a coming arts district and curriculum at Stanford University and the truly drool-worthy collection of modern art that will help anchor it.
Jason Linetzky, director of Stanford's Anderson Collection, led a small group of journalists around the collection at an office complex just off Sand Hill Road.
Harry Anderson and his wife Mary are donating 121 paintings and drawings plus a small art library to Stanford, including works by Willem de Kooning, Sam Francis, Richard Diebenkorn and Philip Guston. The collection will be housed in a new museum, now under construction, and due to open next fall.
“The front door of Stanford’s campus is the arts,” said Matthew Tiews, executive director of the Arts Programs at Stanford. He cited the new museum, the Bing Concert Hall performing arts center — finished last year — and a new Art and Art History building to be completed by the fall of 2015. Stanford has also added a new requirement that every freshman make some kind of art in their first year at the school.