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“Fairs Are Beneath the Dignity of Art”

August 22, 2013 by Marion Maneker

Arne Glimcher

There’s not much new in Graham Bowley’s story on the way that art fairs have taken over the business for galleries. But it is fun to see Arne Glimcher express some old school disdain for the development:

“We used to sit around in the gallery on a Saturday afternoon hoping someone would come in,” said Arne Glimcher, of the Pace Gallery in New York. “What we are dealing with now is destination shopping. We have to be in different places. We bring the art to the collector rather than bringing the collector to the art.”

Mr. Glimcher, too, said he preferred others from his gallery to make the global trek.

“Fairs are beneath the dignity of art,” he said. “To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares — it is just not how you sell art.”

For Art Dealers, A New Life on the Fair Circuit (NY Times)

Dent-Brocklehurst to Open Pace in London

December 6, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Pace, the New York Gallery with an outpost in China will open a London gallery run by former Gagosian director Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, according to Georgina Adam in the Financial Times:

New York’s Pace Gallery, which specialises in modern and contemporary art, will open a temporary base in Soho early next year while it finalises plans for a permanent space. […] Marc Glimcher, son of Arne, told the Financial Times: “London is a powerful hub, both for artists and for the art world, and you have to be there if you want to connect to Russia, the Middle East, India and even Hong Kong – where we are planning to open soon. And a number of our artists – Calder and Rothko, for example – are not represented in London.”

Mega-Gallery Eyes London Art Hub (Financial Times)

Pace Wins de Kooning Estate

September 29, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Carol Vogel reports that Pace Gallery has won back representation of the Willem de Kooning estate from Gagosian:

This week the Pace Gallery said it had won the rights to the estate of Willem de Kooning. The Abstract Expressionist painter, who died in 1997, had previously been handled by the Gagosian Gallery. Officials at Pace said they were planning to hold a major drawing exhibition next year. “We have had a long relationship with de Kooning,’’ Arne Glimcher, the gallery’s chairman, said in a telephone interview. “I knew him personally, and after he died the gallery was the first to sell paintings for the estate.’’

Pace Gallery Secures de Kooning Estate (Arts Beat/New York Times)

Glimcher on CNBC

September 17, 2010 by Marion Maneker

CNBC follows up the dubious Art Newspaper story comparing art prices to contemporary gold prices and inflation rates with an interview with Pace’s Arne Glimcher. Glimcher peddles the old saw about speculators being driven from the market and true art lovers bidding up the best. He also paints a golden age of art buying in early 1960s when a few dozen collectors bought everything worth buying for nothing.

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