Michael Brand has a big promotion in his appointment as the Getty Museum’s new director. “No one, as yet, has a bad word to say about 47-year-old Brand, the likeable and well-regarded Australian who is credited with transforming the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, where he has raised $150 million for capital improvements. But his expertise is in Asian art, an area for which the Getty is not known, and there are suspicions that his appointment has more to do with his talents in generating money.”