Glenn D. Lowry. Abodes of the muses: theorising the modern art museum

This publication is a record of the lecture given by Glenn D. Lowry at the Saïd Business School on Monday 2 May 2011 as the first Humanitas Visiting Professor in Museums, Galleries & Libraries at the University of Oxford. The Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Museums, Galleries & Libraries at the University of Oxford has been developed in close collaboration with and is sponsored by Foster + Partners and organised in association with Balliol College, Oxford and the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art. Humanitas is a series of Visiting Professorships at Oxford and Cambridge that is intended to bring leading practitioners and scholars to both universities to address major themes in the arts, social sciences and humanities.