China Seminar | 8 May 2003

Taoism and the Arts of China: The Hidden Story

Stephen Little is Director and President of the Honolulu Academy of Arts. An authority on Chinese and Japanese art, he received his B.A. from Cornell University (1975), M.A. from U.C.L.A. (1977), and Ph.D. from Yale University (1987). He served as Curator of Chinese Art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (1978-1982), Associate Curator of Chinese Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1987-1989), Curator of Asian Art at the Honolulu Academy of Arts (1989-1994), and Pritzker Curator of Asian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, prior to returning to the Academy in 2003 as Director. His research interests include Chinese and Japanese painting, Chinese calligraphy, Chinese ceramics, Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, and the classical art of Southeast Asia. His publications include Chinese Ceramics of the Transitional Period 1620-1683 (1983), Visions of the Dharma: Japanese Buddhist Painting and Prints in the Honolulu Academy of Arts (1991), and Taoism and the Arts of China (2000), which won the College Art Association’s Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award for the Best Museum Exhibition Catalogue in 2000.