ART

New Walker Center Director: One of the art world’s most closely watched vacancies, the directorship of Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center, has been filled by Kathy Halbreich. She will succeed Martin Friedman, who is retiring after 30 years. Halbreich, founding director of the department of contemporary art at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, also directed the Albert and Vera List Visual Arts Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1976 to 1986. Her curatorial credits include exhibitions of works by Morris Louis, Agnes Martin, Donald Judd and Elizabeth Murray, as well as “Culture and Commentary: An Eighties Perspective,” which she organized for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.