1pm ReadingsTwo award-winning authors arrive back-to-back at...

1pm Readings

Two award-winning authors arrive back-to-back at the Skirball Center. Sunday, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham, whose new book is titled “Never,” will give a reading as part of the Howard Ant Memorial Poets Series. On Monday, writer Michael Frayn, who penned nine novels in addition to the Tony Award-winning “Copenhagen,” appears under the banner of the Spring Literature Series.

Jorie Graham, at the Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 Sepulveda Blvd., L.A. Sunday, 1 p.m.; Michael Frayn, Monday, 7:30 p.m. $5 each; students free. (310) 440-4500.

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7pm Pop Music

Argentina’s Mercedes Sosa makes a rare Los Angeles appearance as she nears the four-decade mark in her career. She’s still known for her pivotal role in the creation of South America’s influential “new song” movement in the 1960s, which brought political commentary to indigenous musical forms.

Mercedes Sosa, Royce Hall, UCLA campus, Westwood, 7 p.m. $39 and $45. (310) 825-2101.

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5pm Art

The Case Study House program, which sought to create beautiful, economical housing for postwar America, attracted some of architecture’s greatest talents: Charles Eames, Richard Neutra and Pierre Koenig among them. In a rare meeting, the six surviving architects--Koenig, Donald C. Hensman, Edward Killingsworth, Don Knorr, Ralph Rapson, Beverly Thorne, along with photographer Julius Schulman--will gather for a Case Study House panel. Elizabeth A.T. Smith, author of “Case Study Houses: The Complete Program,” will lead the discussion.

Case Study House panel, Museum of Contemporary Art Auditorium, 250 S. Grand Ave., downtown L.A. 5 p.m. Free. First-come seating. (213) 626-6222.

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all day Architecture

Nearby Palm Springs is chic again, thanks in part to its dazzling modernist architecture: retro hotels and a slew of mid-century homes by architects such as John Lautner, Richard Neutra and Albert Frey. Following through on current interest in the era’s design, the Palm Springs Desert Museum is hosting the daylong symposium and home tour “Modernist Residential Architecture in Palm Springs.” The day begins at the museum with talks by Brooke Hodge, curator of architecture at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and Michael Webb, author of “Modernism Revisited.” A motor-coach tour will follow, stopping at the Kaufmann House, designed by Neutra; the Kaplan House, designed by Conrad Buff and Donald Hensman; the Kirk Douglas House, designed by Donald Wexler; and the Sanders House, designed by E. Stewart Williams. Another classic, Neutra’s Maslon house near Palm Springs, was recently demolished by new owners. The lesson: see them while you can.

“Modernist Residential Architecture in Palm Springs,” symposium, 9:30 a.m. to noon. Lunch, noon to 1 p.m. Motor-coach tour of homes, 1 to 4:30 p.m.; wine and cheese reception at the Ship of the Desert House, 4:30 to 6 p.m. Symposium and lunch, $35 to $50. Symposium, lunch, tour and reception, $150 to $175. Palm Springs Desert Museum, 101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs. (760) 325-7186.