Arne Glimcher
American film director, art dealer, founder Pace Gallery (born 1938)
Arnold "Arne" Glimcher (born March 12, 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, who succeeded him as chairman of Pace, and American scientist Paul Glimcher. From 2013 to 2017, Arne and Marc Glimcher were included each year in the ArtReview annual list of the 100 most influential people in contemporary art.
Arne Glimcher also produced and directed several films, including The Mambo Kings (1990) and Just Cause (1995).
Early life and education
Glimcher was born on March 12, 1938, into a Jewish family in Duluth, Minnesota, and raised in Boston. His father was a cattle rancher who owned a ranch in Minnesota. Arne was the youngest of four and was interested in art from an early age, which he developed by taking Saturday classes at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
He later graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and pursued an MFA at Boston University, where he took classes with sculptor Harold Tovish. Dissatisfied with the quality of his own art, Glimcher decided to pursue art history, hoping someday to be the director of the Museum of Modern Art.
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