ART HISTORIAN JAMES N. WOOD IS TO HEAD GETTY TRUST.Byline: FRED SHUSTER Staff Writer Promising to be judged by the future rather than the troubled past, art historian James N. Wood was named president of the Getty Trust on Monday. Wood, a 65-year-old former president of the Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago, museum and art school, in Grant Park, facing Michigan Ave. It was incorporated in 1879; George Armour was the first president. Since 1893 the Institute has been housed in its present building, designed in the Italian Renaissance style by , will oversee the Getty, the wealthiest arts organization in the world with an endowment of more than $5 billion. The institute, which has museum sites in Brentwood and Malibu, has been plagued by alleged spending and acquisition improprieties. Wood succeeds longtime long·time adj. Having existed or persisted for a long time: a longtime friend; a longtime resident of Detroit. longtime Adjective Getty administrator Deborah Marrow marrow: see bone marrow. , who took the job on an interim basis in February after the resignation of Barry Munitz. Munitz, a former head of the California State University system California State University System, coordinating agency established in 1960 by the merger of individual California state colleges, now consisting of 23 campuses. , was forced out after seven years during a state probe of his spending. ``People will judge us by where we go from here,'' said Wood, who officially takes the post Feb. 15. Wood, whose expertise includes European painting and sculpture from the 16th to 20th centuries, American painting and sculpture of the 19th and 20th centuries, and photography, has held positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and the St. Louis Art Museum. He served as president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1980 to 2004. ``The first order of business is to do a lot of listening,'' he said. ``The Getty is a wonderfully complex institution. In a relatively short period, they've assembled a remarkable collection. The library, research and conservation areas and art laboratories are some of the greatest in the world.'' In the past year, former curator CURATOR, persons, contracts. One who has been legally appointed to take care of the interests of one who, on account of his youth, or defect of his understanding, or for some other cause, is unable to attend to them himself. 2. Marion True Marion True (born November 5, 1948) is the former curator of antiquities of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. Born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, she studied at New York University and has a PhD from Harvard.[1][2]. was brought up on criminal charges in Italy. A state investigation of Munitz resulted in no criminal charges being filed, but the arts administrator agreed to pay back $250,000 and forgo more than $2 million in contract payments. Louise Bryson, chairwoman of the board of trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. and head of the search committee, said Wood was ideally suited to lead the institute because of his ``deep scholarly knowledge and appreciation of the arts with extensive experience in leading a major arts institution.'' Wood said acquiring new art and more closely aligning the Getty's various components will be among his priorities. ``I think some areas at the museum have become perhaps too separate and independent.'' fred.shuster(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3676 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) WOOD |
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