Art and religion feature in Humanitas lectures

Oxford University's Saïd Business School is to welcome leading experts for a series of lectures and discussions on art, museums, their relationship and value to society. On Monday 2 May, Professor Thomas Struth, Oxford's first Humanitas Visiting Professor in Contemporary Art, will hold a symposium on 'picture making'. A second lecture will follow, on 'the abodes of the muses: theorising the modern art museum'. This will be given by Professor Glenn D Lowry, the university's first Humanitas Visiting Professor in Museums, Galleries & Libraries. Professor Lowry is Director of New York's Museum of Modern Art. Professor Struth is a world renowned photographer. On Thursday 5 May, Professor Struth will lead one of two seminars, 'Do pictures contribute to identity and cultural difference?' His guests alongside Professor Lowry will be James Lingwood, Co-Director of Artangel and Charlotte Cotton, Creative Director of the London Galleries at the National Media Museum.