In Focus Tour—Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures
- Sat, Jan 25, 2025
- 2 pm - 2:30 pm PT
- Resnick Pavilion
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Free with museum admission
Join a LACMA docent for a tour of Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures.
Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures, created in collaboration with scientists at the Carnegie Observatories and the Griffith Observatory, presents a group of rare and visually stunning artworks from different cultures and time periods to explore the variety of human attempts to explain the universe’s origins, mechanics, and meaning. Nearly every ancient culture has seen the heavens as a mirror of cosmic structure and process, and ancient measurements of time were directly influenced by the movements of heavenly bodies. Mapping the Infinite reveals how, as religions evolved, cultures conceived of and depicted cosmic deities and concepts of time and space through works of art and sacred architecture. The exhibition illuminates this history of cosmologies around the globe from the Stone Age to the present, from Neolithic Europe to the present day and including Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, South and Southeast Asia, East Asia, the Islamic Middle East, the Indigenous Americas, Northern Europe, and the United States.
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: Bowl with Courtly and Astrological Motifs, Central or Northern Iran, late 12th–early 13th century, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, purchase, Rogers Fund, and gift of The Schiff Foundation, 1957. Digital image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Program
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: Bowl with Courtly and Astrological Motifs, Central or Northern Iran, late 12th–early 13th century, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, purchase, Rogers Fund, and gift of The Schiff Foundation, 1957. Digital image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Program