And Just Who Is Michael Brand?

“Brand, 47, a native of Australia, is considered to be a rising star in the museum world and has been on short lists for several other museum directorships. He became the assistant director of the Queensland Art Gallery in Australia at 38, and took the director’s job four years later in Richmond, where he embarked on an aggressive mission to build the museum’s holdings, shepherd donations of major collections and raise $100 million for an expansion.” Brand: “One of the reasons why I’ve come to the Getty is that it’s already a great museum. I’m not coming here saying that it needs to be saved or anything like that.”