Jeffrey Brown:

Everywhere you look, light amid the darkness, illuminated manuscripts. Glowing, even shimmering objects, most from medieval times, a few created by contemporary artists, all part of an exhibition at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles called Lumen: The Art and Science of Light.

And the wording of that subtitle is critical. Katherine Fleming is president and CEO of the Getty Trust.

Katherine Fleming, President and CEO, J. Paul Getty Trust: Art and science may at first blush look like things that don’t go together. But, actually, they do. These are both modalities of thought or of expression that are concerned with some of the most profound and basic questions.

So what we thought might be a kind of juxtaposition of tension has actually proven to be one of tremendous overlap and compatibility.