Nov. 6 lecture to celebrate artist Robert Rauschenberg

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of artist Robert Rauschenberg’s birth, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Sheldon Museum of Art is presenting a lecture by Julia Blaut, senior director of curatorial affairs for the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 6 at the museum. The lecture is free and open to the public.

The talk will focus on Rauschenberg’s enduring artistic legacy, with special attention to works in the exhibition “Robert Rauschenberg and the Flatbed Picture Plane,” on view at Sheldon through Jan. 4. 

A graduate of Smith College, the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and the Whitney Independent Study Program, Blaut was formerly assistant curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where she worked on Rauschenberg’s late career retrospective. She has curated, taught and published in the field of post-war American art.

The lecture is supported by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and presented as part of the School of Art, Art History and Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series, which brings notable artists, scholars and designers to Nebraska each semester to enhance the education of students.

Sheldon Museum of Art houses an art collection of international distinction in a landmark high modernist building at 12th and R streets. Admission is free. For hours and more information, click here.