Gallery Tour of Mapping the Infinite with Stephen Little
- Mon, Oct 28, 2024
- 7 pm - 8:30 pm PT
- Resnick Pavilion | LACMA
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Free, RSVP required
How have humans explained the universe’s origins, mechanics, and meaning? Join LACMA curator Stephen Little for a walkthrough of Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures, an exhibition exploring the history of cosmologies around the globe from the Stone Age to the present.
Stephen Little, an authority on Asian art, received his BA from Cornell University, MA from UCLA, and PhD from Yale University. His research interests include Buddhist and Taoist art, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese painting, Chinese ceramics, and the classical arts of Southeast Asia. His publications include Taoism and the Arts of China (2000), Beyond Line: The Art of Korean Writing (2019), and Where the Truth Lies: The Art of Qiu Ying (2020).
All education and outreach programs at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Education Fund and are supported in part by the Judy and Bernard Briskin Family Foundation, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund for Arts Education, Alfred E. Mann Charities, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, Gloria Ricci Lothrop, the Flora L. Thornton Foundation, U.S. Bank, and The Yabuki Family Foundation.
Image Credit: Brahma, God of Creation, Indonesia, Central Java, 9th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of the 2000 Collectors Committee; Johannes Sadeler I, Mercury, from Planetarum effectus et eorum in signis zodiaci super prouincias, regiones, et ciutates dominia (The effects of the planets, and the zodiac signs over which they have dominion, on provinces, regions, and cities), c. 1585, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest
All education and outreach programs at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Education Fund and are supported in part by the Judy and Bernard Briskin Family Foundation, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund for Arts Education, Alfred E. Mann Charities, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, Gloria Ricci Lothrop, the Flora L. Thornton Foundation, U.S. Bank, and The Yabuki Family Foundation.
Image Credit: Brahma, God of Creation, Indonesia, Central Java, 9th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of the 2000 Collectors Committee; Johannes Sadeler I, Mercury, from Planetarum effectus et eorum in signis zodiaci super prouincias, regiones, et ciutates dominia (The effects of the planets, and the zodiac signs over which they have dominion, on provinces, regions, and cities), c. 1585, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest