Science and Art: A Conversations with the Getty Trust's Jim Wood

Presented By: Caltech Committee on Institute Programs

PLEASE NOTE: This event will be held in Hameetman Auditorium in Caltech's Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, located at 1216 E. California Blvd.

Jim Wood, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust and Madeleine Brand of Southern California Public Radio will discuss the Getty, the intersection between science and art, and an unprecedented upcoming series of exhibitions featuring Los Angeles artists.

Jim Wood joined the Getty in February 2007 as president and CEO. A recognized arts leader, Wood served as director and president of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1980 to 2004. Prior to that, he was the director of The St. Louis Museum of Art, an adjunct professor of art history at SUNY at Buffalo, and associate director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. He also held positions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Currently, Wood sits on the boards of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and the Pulitzer Foundation of the Arts.

Madeleine Brand has worked in public radio for more than 20 years. Currently she is host of a new daily radio show on KPCC-FM, which will debut in the coming months. She also fills in as host of NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She produces a parenting podcast for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she hosted NPR's Day to Day, a nationally syndicated daily news show with 2 million listeners. Before that, she worked for NPR as a correspondent, where she covered everything from presidential campaigns to Wall Street to chidren in foster care.

Madeleine is a graduate of Columbia University School of Journalism and of UC Berkeley. A native Californian, she is back in her hometown of Los Angeles with her husband and two children.