JAMES WOOD APPOINTED PRESIDENT OF THE GETTY

James N. Wood, a sixty-five-year-old art historian and former president of the Art Institute of Chicago, will take over the presidency of the Getty Trust in February, reports the Los Angeles Times‘ Christopher Reynolds. The Getty, the wealthiest arts organization in the world, with an endowment of more than five billion dollars, includes two museum sites along with research and conservation institutes and a grantmaking foundation. Wood succeeds interim president Deborah Marrow, a veteran Getty administrator who took the post in February after the abrupt resignation under fire of Barry Munitz. Munitz, former head of the California State University system, led the Getty for seven years but was forced out amid the attorney general’s probe of his free spending and other irregularities.