CONNECTIONS between the art world and big business will be examined today at the Said Business School.

Dr Jim Harris will give a free talk at the Oxford University school in Park End Street from 12.15pm to 1.15pm.

Art historian Dr Harris trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and spent over a decade in music, theatre and television before returning to his studies. He took his BA, MA and PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where he held postdoctoral and research fellowships, before coming to Oxford.