The new Getty Museum director spent his summers as a youth traveling to see art. “Hearing the music in Italy, going to temples in India, eating the food in France — those formative lessons helped shape Brand’s philosophy, his view of art. People who approach art purely through art history and European paintings, he said, might tend to look at paintings as two-dimensional things, of another time, to be purchased and put on a wall. But ‘my first experiences were more in places where there are rituals going on and there are people and sculptures and temples and sound’.”