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with 9 locations worldwide. It was founded in

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Arne Glimcher Arnold "Arne" Glimcher (born March 12, 1938) is an American art dealer, gallerist, film producer, and film director. He is the founder of The Pace Gallery. Glimcher has produced and directed several films, including ''The Mambo Kings'' and '' J ...

in 1960. His son, Marc Glimcher, is now president and CEO. Pace Gallery operates in New York, London, Hong Kong, Palo Alto, Geneva, Seoul, East Hampton, and Palm Beach. The gallery is named after Glimcher's father's nickname "Pacey".Kelly Crow (August 26, 2011)
Keeping Pace
'' Wall Street Journal''. It moved to Manhattan in 1963.

Gallery spaces

Pace

In 1960, at the age of 22, Arnold (Arne) Glimcher founded The Pace Gallery in Boston, which he ran 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 moved his family permanently 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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from 1965 to 1982, located downtown on Broad Street. After her death, the branch closed. In the 1960s, Glimcher and Irving Blum briefly operated a Pace outpost on

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in Los Angeles.

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(June 22, 1999)
PaceWildenstein to End Its Beverly Hills Exhibition Program
'' Los Angeles Times''. From 1995 to 1999, PaceWildenstein had 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
'' New York Observer''. 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 Summer Olympics 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 Royal Academy of Arts's

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building in London, beginning with an exhibition that juxtaposed late paintings by Mark Rothko with photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto. In April 2014, Pace used the former Tesla Motors building in Menlo Park, California 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 Zuoz, Switzerland. In 2018, it opened a permanent gallery in Geneva. Pace opened its first space in Seoul – a gallery – in 2017 before moving to a space in the city's Hannam-dong district, designed by Minsuk Cho. 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 program of music, dance, film and conversation 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 Blain Southern gallery, and enlisted

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for the renovation of 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 as a means to formalize the gallery’s structure.

Pace Wildenstein

From 1993 to 2010, Pace operated jointly with Wildenstein & Co., a gallery specializing in old master painting, 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 Peter MacGill is an American gallerist, curator, and art historian. MacGill is President of the Pace/MacGill Gallery, which opened in 1983 on East 57th Street in New York City. In 2006 he was the first recipient of the Harold Jones Distinguishe ...

.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.

Publishing

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

Other activities

In 2022, Pace partnered with Osulloc to create a café in Seoul, with artwork by Kohei Nawa.

Controversy

In 2016, London art dealer James Mayor filed a lawsuit against Arne Glimcher and the Agnes Martin catalogue 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 catalogue.Claire Selvin (April 6, 2018)
Dismissing Suit Against Agnes Martin Catalogue Raisonné Committee, Judge Bolsters Embattled Art-Authentication Field
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''. The New York Supreme Court 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 United States District Court for the Southern District of New York jury brokerage awarded CBRE $6.3 million in damages.Daniel Cassady (9 December 2022)
Pace Gallery To Pay $6.3 Million To The Real Estate Brokerage CBRE: Lawsuit
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''. In 2022, Pace Gallery filed a lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court over a fake

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drawing purchased for $2 million from a man purporting to be Seurat’s descendant.

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