Stated Meeting, Malibu, CA
Saturday, February 23, 2008
The Art and Science of Conservation
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James Wood (3 min.) joined the J. Paul Getty Trust
in February 2007 as President and Chief Executive Officer. A recognized arts leader,
Wood served as Director and President of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1980-2004.
Prior to that, he was the Director of The St. Louis Museum of Art and Associate
Director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY. 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, the Harvard University Art Museums, and the Pulitzer Foundation
for the Arts. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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Speakers:
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Jerry Podany, Jorge Silvetti, and Robert Campbell In
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Jerry Podany joined the J. Paul Getty Museum
in 1978 and became Senior Conservator of Antiquities Conservation in 1986. An adjunct
professor at the University of Southern California, he lectures and teaches internationally
on the subject of conservation and collections care within museums. Podany is President
of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works and
Past President of the American Institute for Conservation. He has served on numerous
committees and professional boards of directors. He publishes widely on aspects
of object conservation, archaeological site preservation, the history of restoration,
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Jorge Silvetti is a Principal of the architectural
firm Machado and Silvetti Associates, which he co-founded in 1974. Since 1975, he
has also taught architecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University,
where he became Professor of Architecture in Design and Design Theory in 1983. He
was Director of the Master of Architecture program at Harvard from 1985 to 1989
and was named Nelson Robinson, Jr. Professor of Architecture in 1990. From 1995
to 2002, he chaired the Department of Architecture at Harvard. His writings have
appeared in numerous architectural and urban design magazines, including Oppositions,
Controspazio, Daidalos, Metamorfosi, Harvard Architectural
Review, and Assemblage. A juror for the Pritzker Architectural Prize
from 1996 to 2004, he regularly serves on juries for architectural competitions
and awards. The first person to receive Progressive Architecture awards in all three
categories of architecture, urban design, and research, he was awarded the Rome
Prize from the American Academy in Rome in 1985. His work on the Getty Villa in
Malibu has been honored with several awards, including the Charles Pankow Award
from the American Concrete Institute. |
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Robert Campbell is the Pulitzer Prize winning
architecture critic of The Boston Globe and writes a regular column, “Critique,”
for the magazine Architectural Record. In private practice as an architect
since 1975, Campbell serves as a consultant to cultural institutions and cities
and has taught architectural design at several schools, most recently as the Max
Fisher Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan. He is a former artist-in-residence
at the American Academy in Rome, and in 2004 received the annual Award of Honor
of the Boston Society of Architects. With Peter Vanderwarker, he is the author of
Cityscapes of Boston: An American City Through Time. His poetry has appeared
in several publications, including The Atlantic Monthly and the Harvard
Review. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and of the
American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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