Talk to Me, Baby
Baltimorean author Laura Lippman will be at Politics and Prose on Tuesday.
Monday:
>> The 14th Street Busboys has an evening of Welsh poetry and song tonight starting at 6 p.m., including work from Welsh writers Catrin Dafydd, Owen Sheers, Fflur Dafydd, Tom Anderson and Eurig Salisbury as well as D.C. poets Ethelbert Miller, Kyle Dargan and Fred Joiner.
Tuesday:
>> Tonight at 7 p.m. is the first in the American Art Museum's three-part series of Collector's Roundtable lectures on collecting. Each lecture costs $20, and tonight's features Keith Davis, the curator of photography for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
>> Politics and Prose hosts Baltimorean mystery writer Laura Lippman at 7 p.m. for a book signing of Life Sentences.
Wednesday:
>> Fans of German Expressionism should head to the Goethe Institute at 6:45 p.m. for an illustrated lecture on painter Max Beckman, led by the National Gallery's Christopher With.
>> Or if astronomy's more your thing, head to the Air and Space Museum at 6 p.m. for Why is Astronomy so Popular? The lecture doesn't start until 7:30 p.m., but get there early for some pre-lecture activities.
Thursday:
>> Your second astronomy option this week is at 6:45 p.m. at the Carnegie Institution. Astronomer Alan Boss will be lecturing on The Search for Living Planets and signing his book. $25.
>> Or, there are two visual art options. First, at 7 p.m., the American Art Museum has media artist Raphael M. Ortiz. Or, at 8 p.m., head to the Hirshhorn for an evening with Israeli illustrator and animator David Polonsky.
Saturday:
>> From 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., the D.C. Society of Professional Journalists is hosting a one-day conference titled A New Look at Journalism, which will feature reporters from the WaPo, the Washington Times, Congressional Quarterly and the Pew Research Center on politics, freelance journalism, and blogging.
>> At 11 a.m., head to the Anacostia Community Museum for a program on women inventors titled Rising above Limitations - The Spirit of African American.
Sunday:
>> This weekend's lecture at the National Gallery of Art is Picasso and Truth II: Room at 2 p.m. in the East Building auditorium.
>> At 2 p.m., the Portrait Gallery has a lecture with portrait photographer Katy Grannan, whose work is currently on view at the museum.
Next Monday:
>> Starting today is a two-day symposium from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) titled 1968 and Beyond: A Symposium on the Impact of the Black Power Movement on America. Today's events run from 9 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. and include two panel discussions: Nationalism and Pan-Africanism and To Be Young Gifted and Black: The Black Arts, Black Consciousness and the New Black Aesthetic.