Talks
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GOBI BONES
Julie Chase recounts the story of a 2003 fossil-hunting expedition to the Gobi in Mongolia. Highlights of the hunt included a surprise meeting with Russian paleontologists, uncovering “robbed” sites, and the discovery and excavation of an unusual bed of ankylosaur feet. Ms. Chase is the author of “Dinosaurs of the Gobi.” Tonight, 6:15 p.m. reception, 7 p.m. talk, Explorers Club, 46 E. 70th St., between Park and Madison avenues, 212-628-8383,$15 general, $10 members, $5 students.
SIENESE SPLENDOUR
A pair of lectures pulls back the curtain on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s acquisition process, focusing on the recent purchase of Duccio’s “Madonna and Child.” The museum’s director, Philippe de Montebello,gives an illustrated lecture about why museums matter, using the Duccio painting as an example of what they can offer culturally and historically (tomorrow, 8 p.m.). The Jayne Wrightsman curator of European paintings, Keith Christiansen, gives the second lecture on “Duccio, Giotto, and the Origins of Western Painting” (Tuesday, May 3, 8 p.m.). Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 1000 Fifth Ave. at 82nd Street, 212-570-3949, $50 for both.
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