The Pace Gallery is a contemporary art and modern art art gallery with 9 locations worldwide. It was founded in Boston by Arne 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 Wall Street Journal. It moved to Manhattan in 1963.
After the Pace Gallery closed its Boston location in 1963, Eva Glimcher maintained a branch of the Pace Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, located downtown on Broad Street, from 1965 to 1982. After her death, the branch closed.
In the 1960s, Glimcher and Ferus Gallery briefly operated a Pace outpost on La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles.Christopher Knight (June 22, 1999), PaceWildenstein to End Its Beverly Hills Exhibition Program Los Angeles Times.
From 1995 to 1999, PaceWildenstein operated a gallery in Beverly Hills, designed by architect Charles Gwathmey.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 Beijing, 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’ ARTnews. 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 6 Burlington Gardens building in London, beginning with an exhibition that juxtaposed late paintings by Mark Rothko with photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto.Mark Brown (July 2, 2012), New York art gallery Pace takes up London residence The Guardian.Melanie Gerlis (19 November 2020), The art-buying habits of New Yorkers revealed Financial Times.
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.Alex Greenberger (19 July 2022), Pace Gallery Closes Palo Alto Space After ‘Consolidating’ West Coast Operations ARTnews.
Also in 2014, Pace operated a temporary space in Chesa Büsin, a historic 12th-century house in Zuoz, Switzerland. Swiss space for Pace The Art Newspaper, June 20, 2014. Archived June 22, 2014. In 2018, it opened a permanent gallery in Geneva.Andrew Russeth (January 26, 2018), Pace Will Open Its Ninth Gallery, in Geneva ARTnews.
Pace opened its first space in Seoul – a gallery – in 2017 before moving to an space in the city's Hannam-dong district,Maximilíano Durón (April 8, 2021), Pace Gallery to Expand Seoul Outpost as City’s Art Market Grows ARTnews. designed by Minsuk Cho.Andrew Russeth (1 September 2022), Pace Gallery Can’t Stop Expanding in Seoul, Where It Has Upgraded in High Style ARTnews.
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.Laura van Straaten (October 25, 2018), A Gallery by Any Other Name, Size and Shape? New York Times. 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.Robin Pogrebin (August 11, 2019), Picking Up the Pace: A Mega-Gallery Expands in Chelsea New York Times.
In 2020, Pace opened a temporary exhibition space in East Hampton Village.Sophie Haigney (June 9, 2020), Galleries to Open in the Hamptons. It’s Not Business as Usual. New York Times.
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 Jamie Fobert to renovate the space.Tessa Solomon (November 19, 2020), London Presence, Pace Takes Over Former Blain Southern Gallery ARTnews.
In June 2022, Pace Gallery partnered with the NFT 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.
In 2017, the CBRE Group 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 ARTnews.
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."Zachary Small (12 November 2020), Pace Gallery Positions Itself as the Art Business of the Future. But Employees Say an Abusive Work Environment Keeps It Mired in the Past Artnet News. 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.Zachary Small (17 March 2021), Pace Gallery Parts Ways With Two Top Executives Accused of Abusive Behavior Amid a Broader Company Restructuring Artnet News.
In 2022, Pace Gallery filed a lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court over a fake Georges Seurat drawing purchased for $2 million from a man purporting to be Seurat's descendant.
In May 2022, days before a Louise Nevelson sculpture was scheduled to hit the Sotheby’s 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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