The Phillips Collection and the Hirshhorn are teaming up for two lectures this week on the figurative work by Philip Guston (his “Daydreams” is pictured above) and Georg Baselitz.

DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area

It’s another slow week for lectures at the local museums, but there are a number of interesting events at the various Busboys locations, as well as at Politics and Prose and Borders to fill the week.

Wednesday:
>> It’s the first Wednesday of the month, so it’s time for G.R.A.S.P. (Green Resources and Sustainable Practice) at the Shirlington Library. Be there at 7 p.m. for a film screening of Good Food, and hear a discussion on “how fresh food can break our addiction to obesity, oil, and waste.”

Thursday:
>> At 6 p.m., the 14th Street Busboys hosts a documentary screening and panel discussion titled Work. Plan. Build. Dream. A Model for School Success with alumni from Teach for America and the Providence St. Mel school in Chicago. The city school has managed to graduate 100% of its students for the last thirty years. The documentary The Providence Effect looks at its strategies. Post-screening, area school officials (from DCPS, PGCPS and charters) will discuss. Free, but RSVP to jacqueline.greer [at] gmail.com.

>> Or, head to Politics and Prose for a reading with Jonathan Tropper and his new novel, This Is Where I Leave You, in which a dysfunctional family gathers at their father’s funeral to “relive the past and try to come to terms with the challenges of their own families.”

>> The Hirshhorn and the Phillips start a two part lecture series tonight at 6:30 p.m. with Looking at Baselitz and Guston, Part I: In Conversation at the Phillips. The Hirshhorn’s Kristen Hileman and The Phillips’ Vesela Sretenovic discuss the figurative works by Georg Baselitz and Philip Guston which are featured in Strange Bodies at the Hirshhorn and Paint Made Flesh at The Phillips. You have to pay the Phillips’ entry fee for tonight’s talk, but tomorrow’s 12:30 p.m. discussion at the Hirshhorn is free.

Saturday:
>> The Borders in Bailey’s Crossroads hosts a book discussion today at 4 p.m. with Sarah McCoy and The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico. The book is set in 1961 Puerto Rico, and features an eleven-year-old girl and her “struggle to break free from the people who have raised [her], and the difficulties of leaving behind one’s homeland for places unknown.”

Next Monday:
>> The 14th Street Busboys honors Labor Day with a panel discussion on The Relevance of Organized Labor In the 21st Century at 6 p.m.