Gallery Tour—Mapping the Infinite with E.C. Krupp

How did ancient cultures understand the sky? Join E.C. Krupp, director of the Griffith Observatory, for a tour of Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures and a discussion of the ways that ancient cultures viewed the sky and how it affected their societies.

E.C. Krupp is a professional astronomer and Director of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. Since 1973, he has been recognized internationally for his work on ancient, prehistoric, and traditional astronomy and on the relationship between culture and the sky. He has authored and edited five books on this subject and has personally visited, studied, and photographed nearly 2200 ancient, historic, and prehistoric sites throughout the world. He has written hundreds of articles for the general reader, dozens of research papers, and four children’s books on astronomy and has also coedited and coauthored Public Astronomy, Los Angeles Style.

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).