The Getty Museum’s Rebecca Taylor Appointed Communications Director at MoMA PS1

NEW YORK, NY.- Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 and Chief Curator at Large at MoMA, announced that Rebecca Taylor has been appointed Communications Director at MoMA PS1. In this role, Ms. Taylor will manage all communications functions for MoMA PS1, working in close collaboration with Mr. Biesenbach and the Marketing and Communications staff at MoMA. Her duties will include planning, developing, and implementing press strategies and press events; planning, developing, and executing marketing, advertising, and media strategies; overseeing web content [...]

Alfred Stieglitz: the Lake George Years on View at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

SYDNEY.- The photographs Alfred Stieglitz [1864–1946] took around his summer house at Lake George, New York state, USA after 1915 are considered a major departure and dramatically influenced the course of photography. The desire to build a specifically ‘American’ art led Stieglitz to explore the essential nature of photography, released from contrivances and from intervention in print and negative. ‘Stieglitz’s mature photographs from the 1910s onwards are free from any sense that photography must refer to something outside of itself [...]

Deborah Marrow Named Interim Director and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Deborah Marrow, director of the Getty Foundation, has been appointed interim President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, filling the position left empty by the unexpected death of President and CEO James N. Wood last week. In this capacity, she will report directly to the Getty’s Board of Trustees. “We very much appreciate Deborah’s willingness to step in during this difficult time,” said Mark S. Siegel, chairman of the J. Paul Getty Trust Board of [...]

Getty Trust President and CEO James Wood Dies at Age 69

LOS ANGELES (AP).- James N. Wood, the president and chief executive of the J. Paul Getty Trust, who also worked for 25 years at the Art Institute of Chicago, has died. He was 69. He died unexpectedly of natural causes, Mark Siegel, who chairs the Getty’s board of trustees, said in a statement Saturday. Wood was found in his Los Angeles home late Friday. Siegel paid tribute to Wood’s accomplishments during his three years at the Getty, including his focus [...]

Mark S. Siegel Elected to Succeed Louise Bryson as Chair of Getty Board

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Trust announced today that Mark S. Siegel has been elected to serve as Chair of the Board of Trustees effective July 1, 2010. He will succeed Louise Bryson who has served as the Board’s Chair since 2006. Siegel joined the Board in November 2005, and currently serves as Chair of the Investment Committee and is a member of both the Governance and Compensation committees. He also is a member of the Getty Museum’s [...]

Italian Judge Wants Ancient Statue Seized from Getty Museum

ROME.- An Italian judge ordered the seizure of an ancient Greek statue from the J. Paul Getty Museum on Thursday, the latest round in a lengthy legal dispute over artworks Italy says were looted from its territory. The Los Angeles-based museum, which bought the bronze statue for $3.9 million in 1977, said it would appeal to Italy’s top court against the ruling. Prosecutors in the Italian city of Pesaro argued that the highly prized sculpture — which depicts an athlete [...]

Getty Museum Director Michael Brand Elects to Step Down

LOS ANGELES, CA.- James N. Wood, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, announced today that Dr. Michael Brand has elected to step down as director of the J. Paul Getty Museum at the end of January. He will be available to serve as a consultant through the end of the summer. Brand joined the Getty in December 2005 with a five-year contract. Wood said that David Bomford, associate director for collections at the Museum, will serve as [...]