Talks
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GETTY GOODS
A curator at the Getty Research Institute, David Brafman, gives a lecture in conjunction with the Grolier Club’s exhibit “Past Presence: Objects of Study at the Getty Research Institute.” The wide-ranging exhibit includes Marcel Duchamp’s “Box (Series C)” (1958), a collection of 18th-century English optical inventions, and an album of portraits of pickpockets apprehended in Paris in 1889. A reception follows. Tonight, 6 p.m., Grolier Club, 47 E. 60th St., between Park and Madison avenues, 212-838-6690, free. Note: Business attire suggested.
WRITING SCIENCE
The Nobel Prize-winning president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Harold Varmus, moderates a conversation about incorporating scientific material into narrative storytelling. The participants are the author of “Ship Fever” (W.W. Norton) and “Servants of the Map” (W.W. Norton), Andrea Barrett, and the author of “His Brother’s Keeper: A Story From the Edge of Medicine” (Ecco), Jonathan Weiner. Both writers are Pulitzer Prize winners. Tomorrow, 6:30 p.m., New York Public Library, Celeste Bartos Forum, 212-930-9213, free, reservations suggested.
SHIP SCENES
The chairman of the North American branch of Christie’s Auction House, Stephen Lash, gives an illustrated lecture about Art Deco transatlantic ocean liners. “Floating Palaces” features views of the ballrooms, lounges, and staterooms of ships such as the Normandie and the Queen Mary. Dinner is also served. Tomorrow, 6 p.m., AIA Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, between Bleecker and West 3rd streets, 212-757-0981 ext. 205, $15, reservations recommended.
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