A Troublesome Subject: The Art of Robert Arneson is the subject of a lecture by Jonathan FinebergThursday, Sept. 26, at 7:30 p.m. in 240 Art Building West on the University of Iowa campus. Fineberg’s lecture, which is free and open to the public, is a presentation of the UI Museum of Art and part of the Jeanne and Richard Levitt Lectureship: American Crafts in Context.

Based on a book by the same name, the lecture promises insight into the life and work of evocative iconoclast, Robert Arneson. From the University of California Press, A Troublesome Subject tells the story of how a high school art teacher transformed himself into an artist of international stature and ambition.

Fineberg is the adjunct curator of the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York, the visiting Presidential Professor at the University of Nebraska, and the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Art History Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is also a trustee emeritus of the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., where he was founding director of the Center for the Study of Modern Art.

For more information, visit the UIMA website.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all UI-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to attend this lecture, contact the UI Museum of Art in advance at 319-335-1727.