Free Stuff January 20-27

Utah & Ether's street art book Probation Vacation

"Art of the Comic Book: A Crash Course" | With Adam Tibbetts | Parker Hill Branch Library, 1497 Tremont St, Roxbury | January 20 @ 4 pm | 617.427.3820 or bpl.org

Ugly Duckling Presse Translation Reading | With notable translators Barbara Siegel Carlson, Stephanie Sandler, and Matvei Yankelevich | Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline | January 20 @ 7 pm | 617.566.6660 or brooklinebooksmith.com

"R.  Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe Post-Performance Lecture" | "Bucky and Me," a talk with the play's writer and director D.W. Jacobs; open to the public | Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St, Cambridge | January 21 @ 9:30 pm | 617.495.2668 or americanrepertorytheater.org

"John La Farge's Second Paradise: Voyages in the South Seas, 1890-1891" | Paintings and drawings, including 11 previously unknown sketchbooks, by the New York painter | January 22-February 27 | 978.749.4015 or andover.edu/addison

"Probation Vacation" | Book release and graffiti art by Danielle Bremner [a/k/a Utah] and Jim Clay Harper VI [a/k/a Ether] | Fourth Wall Project, 132 Brookline Ave, Boston | January 22-30; reception January 22: 7-10 pm | fourthwallproject.com

Christian Lander | Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle's Sweaters to Maine's Microbrews discussion | January 22 @ 4 pm | 617.661.1515 or harvard.com

Seth Mnookin | The Panic Virus discussion | January 24 @ 7 pm | 617.661.1515 or harvard.com

Joe Fig: "Inside the Painter's Studio" | Glimpses into the workspaces of art stars | January 25-March 2 | 617.879.7333 or massart.edu/galleries

Jared Duval | Next Generation Democracy: What the Open-Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics and Change discussion | Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge | January 26 @ 7 pm | 617.661.1515 or harvard.com

Lewis Hyde | Cambridge Forum discussion of Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership | First Unitarian Church, 3 Church St, Cambridge | January 26 @ 7 pm | 617.661.1515 or harvard.com

Karen Abbott | American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare - the Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee reading | Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline | January 26 @ 7 pm | 617.566.6660 or brooklinebooksmith.com