Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures
LACMA,Los Angeles,United States
Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures explores the variety of human attempts to explain the universe’s origins, mechanics and meaning. Looking at how cultures conceived and depicted concepts of time and space, the exhibition illuminates this history of cosmologiesaround 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 US. LACMA, Los Angeles, through March 2.
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