Talks
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ANCIENT OBJECTS Author Olivier Bernier delivers the first in his four-part lecture series “Exotic Antiquities.” The opening discussion focuses on the ancient riches of Libya and Rome. Tonight, 6 p.m., Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 1000 Fifth Ave. at 82nd Street, 212-570-3949, $22 for one lecture, $80 for series of four.
WHAT IS SANITY? Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, the editor of the new Penguin Modern Classics translations of Freud, participates in a conversation with writer George Prochnik. They’ll discuss the notion of sanity: While madness is often written about, its less-glamorous opposite is ill-defined. Mr. Prochnik is the author of the forthcoming book “Music of the Quills,” which examines the friendship between Sigmund Freud and Boston psychologist James Jackson Putnam, Mr. Prochnik’s great-grandfather. Tonight, 7 p.m., New York Public Library, South Court Auditorium, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, 212-868-4444, $15 general, $10 members, seniors, and students.
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