TORONTO— Michael Brand, the former J. Paul Getty Museum director who stepped down at the Los Angeles institution earlier this year, has been appointed to a consultancy post at the Aga Khan Development Network, a global Islamic charitable foundation that is currently building an Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. According to sources with knowledge of the hire, the position places Brand — an expert in Asian art — in line to assume the directorship of the Islamic art and culture museum when it opens in a Fumihiko Maki-designed building in 2013.
Reached by ARTINFO, Brand confirmed the news of his appointment as a consultant, saying that he will be advising the organization “on strategies for the development of their international museum programs including, most specifically, the new Aga Khan Museum in Toronto.” A representative for the museum could not immediately be reached for comment.
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