Media day at the Getty

What to do when you've endured more than your share of painful staff departures, investigative reporters and international prosecutors smell your blood in the virtual water and your boss exits abruptly under a cloud of questionable practices? If you are the Getty, you might hire Sitrick and Co. — oops, already tried that. Next choice is to invite the city's media up to the hill in Brentwood for some personalized stroking and tours of all the cool new stuff coming for fall. So on Tuesday, survivors of the Munitz regime assured a hundred or more reporters, editors, producers and critics, among them the in-house arts observer for LA Observed, that everything will be better now. A gratis lunch prepared by the museum's chefs made sure that the speechifying went down easy. Lunch opened with a salad of coastal greens and Gaviota strawberries, with all the pinot bianco one might desire in the early afternoon. It just got better from there and made many in attendance happy that the Getty has so much wealth to play with. Full menu after the jump.