Kathy Halbreich of MoMA to Lead Rauschenberg Foundation
Kathy Halbreich’s name has often surfaced over the years as a possible successor to the director of the Museum of Modern Art, Glenn D. Lowry. But Ms. Halbreich points out that she is, in fact, older than Mr. Lowry, that MoMA has a mandatory retirement age and that she has long considered her current job at MoMA — associate director — the best in the business.
Instead, she has decided to leave the museum to head the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Manhattan as its new executive director, the organization plans to announce on Thursday. In addition to promoting the works of Robert Rauschenberg, who died in 2008, the foundation supports artists in the many fields in which he worked — painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking and performance. (It also runs a residency program in Rauschenberg’s former home on Captiva Island, Fla., but because the house was damaged by Hurricane Irma, the program was postponed this year.) . . .