Vik Muniz. Class dismissed. Art, creativity and education

This publication is a record of the lecture given by Vik Muniz at the Grove Auditorium on Thursday 8 May 2014 as the fourth Humanitas Visiting Professor in Contemporary Art at the University of Oxford.

The lecture was accompanied by a related symposium called ‘Between the artist and the museum’ that took place at the Headley Lecture Theatre, Oxford on Friday 9 May 2013. This included contributions from Vik Muniz and Michael Govan, chief executive officer and Wallis Annenberg director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The event was chaired by Paul Hobson, head of the director of Modern Art Oxford.

The Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Contemporary Art has been developed in close collaboration with and is sponsored by Ivorypress and organised in association with the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, Magdalen College, Oxford and the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art.