Lecture looks at art and social morals

Can art be immoral? That’s the question Noel Carroll will pose in a Friends of the UW–Madison Libraries lecture at 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 9.

Carroll, the Monroe C. Beardsley Professor in the Philosophy of the Arts at UW–Madison, gives the inaugural talk in the Friends spring lecture series.

The lecture, titled “Can Art be Immoral? The Paradox of Oscar Wilde,” will be accompanied by readings by D. Scott Glasser from Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray.”

Glasser is artistic director of the Madison Repertory Theater and is directing the Rep’s upcoming production of “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.”

The lecture and readings will be in the Department of Special Collections, 976 Memorial Library.