Talks
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WHITE’S LIVES Writer and Princeton professor Edmund White joins the New York Public Library’s Paul Holdengraber in conversation about the author’s new autobiography, “My Lives” (Ecco). The book presents Mr.White’s life by topics, including “My Friends,” “My Europe,” and “My Blonds.” Tonight, 7 p.m., New York Public Library, South Court Auditorium at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, 455 Fifth Ave. at 42nd Street, 212-869-8089, $15 general, $10 donors, seniors, students.
MIXING ART AND POLITICS Fordham Law School’s Forum on Law, Culture, and Society presents “Strip Searches, the Body Politic, and the Price of Post-9/11 Security,” a conversation with film director Sidney Lumet and television producer and writer Tom Fontana.They discuss how the legal system has played a role in their creative work over the years. The evening is moderated by novelist and law professor Thane Rosenbaum and includes clips from Messrs. Lumet and Fontana’s HBO movie “Strip Search.” Tonight, 7:30 p.m. reception, 8 p.m. program, the Screening Room, 1 Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle, 10th floor, 212-636-6722, free.
MONUMENTAL CITY As part of the lecture series titled “World Monuments: Touchstones of Past and Present,” a curator in the department of Asian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Maxwell Hearn, discusses Beijing, “the Forbidden City,” and the meaning of iconic architectural monuments. Tonight, 8 p.m., the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 1000 Fifth Ave. at 82nd Street, 212-570-3949, $25.
ETCHER SKETCH A professor of art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Joseph Leo Koerner,presents a talk on German artist and etcher Albrecht Durer. Titled “Durer’s Hands,” the lecture focuses on the artist’s early work as a personal expression of its creator. Thursday, 6 p.m., the Frick Collection, 1 E. 70th St. at Fifth Avenue, 212-288-0700, free one half-hour before starting time.
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