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with 9 locations worldwide. It was founded in

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Arne Glimcher Arnold "Arne" Glimcher (born March 2, 1938) is an American art dealer, gallerist, film producer, and film director. He is the founder of Pace Gallery, which by 2011 sold more than $400 million in art annually. He is the father of Marc Glimcher, ...

in 1960. His son, Marc Glimcher, is now president and CEO. Pace Gallery operates in New York, London, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Geneva, Seoul, East Hampton, Tokyo, and Palm Beach. The gallery is named after Glimcher's father's nickname, "Pacey".Kelly Crow (August 26, 2011)
Keeping Pace
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''. It moved to

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in 1963.

Main business

In 1960, at the age of 22, Arnold (Arne) Glimcher founded The Pace Gallery in Boston, running it with his wife, Milly, and his mother, Eva. In 1963, Glimcher partnered with Fred Mueller to bring the gallery to New York, where it opened a location on East 57th Street with the help of

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, a close friend of Glimcher's. In 1965, Glimcher closed the Boston gallery and permanently moved his family to New York. Three years later, the gallery moved to its long-time location at 32 East 57th Street. After the Pace Gallery closed its Boston location in 1963, Eva Glimcher maintained a branch of the Pace Gallery in

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, located downtown on Broad Street, from 1965 to 1982. After her death, the branch closed. In the 1960s, Glimcher and

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briefly operated a Pace outpost on

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. Christopher Knight (June 22, 1999)
PaceWildenstein to End Its Beverly Hills Exhibition Program
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''. From 1995 to 1999, PaceWildenstein operated a gallery in

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, designed by architect

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.Zoë Lescaze (March 20, 2014)
Pace Gallery Pops Up in Silicon Valley
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''. From 2008 until 2019, PaceWildenstein – and later Pace – maintained a space gallery in the Factory 798 District of

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, China; it was the first major Manhattan art gallery with a presence in the city. It opened in 2008 to coincide with the

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in the city.Barbara Pollack (July 8, 2019)
Pace Gallery Closes Beijing Branch—Arne Glimcher: ‘It’s Impossible to Do Business in Mainland China Right Now’
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''. Under the direction of its president, Leng Lin, Pace Beijing showed a mixture of American, European, and Asian artists. From 2012 to 2020, Pace occupied the west wing of the

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building in

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, beginning with an exhibition that juxtaposed late paintings by

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with photographs by

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. In April 2014, Pace used the former

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building in

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, as a temporary exhibition space. It later operated a permanent gallery in downtown Palo Alto from 2016 to 2022. Also in 2014, Pace operated a temporary space in Chesa Büsin, a historic 12th-century house in

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, Switzerland. In 2018, it opened a permanent gallery in

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. Pace opened its first space in Seoul – a gallery – in 2017 before moving to an space in the city's

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district, designed by Minsuk Cho.Andrew Russeth (1 September 2022)
Pace Gallery Can’t Stop Expanding in Seoul, Where It Has Upgraded in High Style
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''. In 2019, Pace opened a new space in New York's Chelsea district, designed by Bonetti/Kozerski Architecture, spanning eight stories across — of which are outdoor exhibition space. In addition to exhibitions, the building features Pace Live, a multidisciplinary music, dance, film and conversation program with a full-time curatorial director at the helm. In 2020, Pace opened a temporary exhibition space in East Hampton Village. In 2021, Pace relocated its London outpost to 4 Hanover Square in Mayfair, the former home of the now-defunct

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gallery, and enlisted Jamie Fobert to renovate the space. In June 2022, Pace Gallery partnered with the

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platform Art Blocks, with the intention of each organization giving access to each other's collectors bases. In December 2022, Samanthe Rubell was named President of Pace Gallery, and a “Round Table, consisting of the gallery’s 10 most senior directors," was formed to formalize the gallery's structure. In 2022, Pace partnered with Osulloc to create a café in Seoul, with artwork by Kohei Nawa.

Other activities

Pace Verso

In November 2021, Pace launched their custom-built NFT platform with drops from Lucas Samaras's ''XYZ'' series.

Pace Wildenstein

From 1993 to 2010, Pace operated jointly with Wildenstein & Co., a gallery specializing in old master paintings, as PaceWildenstein. In 1993, after sales had slowed following the art-market crash of 1990, Arne Glimcher agreed to take up

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's long-standing merger offer; by 2010, the Glimcher family paid $100 million to buy back the Wildensteins' 49 percent share in Pace's assets, including an inventory of several thousand paintings.

Pace/MacGill

Pace is a partner in the Pace/MacGill, which specializes in photographs and is run by Peter MacGill.Philip Gefter (December 3, 2006)
'What’s New in Photography: Anything but Photos'
''The New York Times''. From 1983 until 2019, Pace/MacGill maintained its standalone space at 32 East 57th Street before consolidating with Pace's headquarters at 540 West 25th Street.

Pace Prints

Founded in 1968, Pace Prints (Pace Editions, Inc.) on East 57th Street was sold in 2024. Pace Prints operated Pace African & Oceanic Art (formerly Pace Primitive) between 1971 and 2024; it was first located in New York’s Upper East Side neighborhood before moving moved to a Chelsea location in 2022.

Publishing

Over the course of its first 50 years, Pace was involved in releasing some 450 catalogs for its shows and artists. In January 2009, PaceWildenstein announced plans for an independent publishing company called Artifex Press, dedicated to creating online artists' catalogs raisonnés. In 2015, the company launched a unit specifically for digital catalogs raisonnés.

Controversy

In 2016, London art dealer James Mayor filed a lawsuit against Arne Glimcher and the Agnes Martin catalog raisonné committee, arguing that they had hurt the value of 13 works of Martin he sold after they decided not to include them in their catalog.Claire Selvin (April 6, 2018)
Dismissing Suit Against Agnes Martin Catalogue Raisonné Committee, Judge Bolsters Embattled Art-Authentication Field
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''. The

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dismissed the lawsuit in 2018. In 2017, the

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alleged that Pace had failed to pay them over $3 million in commissions for advising the gallery during negotiations to redevelop the gallery's flagship space at 540 West 25th Street with the building's owner, Weinberg Properties (WP). By 2022, a

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jury brokerage awarded CBRE $6.3 million in damages. In 2020, an investigation by Artnet News revealed allegations that two presidents at Pace, Douglas Baxter, and Susan Dunne, had physically and verbally abused employees for nearly two decades. Former employees said that Baxter had thrown a phone at one employee's head, and an audio recording revealed him telling the Parrish Art Museum's director that a woman who accused Chuck Close of sexual misconduct "should go live in Puerto Rico and be a hurricane victim, or starve in Haiti or Ethiopia, or be a bomb victim in Aleppo." The gallery launched an investigation into the presidents' conduct and ultimately parted ways with both employees. Dunne moved to work at David Zwirner; however, Pace retained Baxter as an advisor. The company then restructured its leadership. In 2022, Pace Gallery filed a lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court over a fake

Georges Seurat Georges Pierre Seurat ( , ; ; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough ...

drawing purchased for $2 million from a man purporting to be Seurat's descendant. In May 2022, days before a

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sculpture was scheduled to hit the

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auction block, Glimcher declared the work to be inauthentic. Consequently, the Hardie Beloff estate, who consigned the piece to Sotheby’s, filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania in April 2024, accusing Pace of purposefully forgoing the sale to protect its control over Nevelson’s market.

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