1. Arnold "Arne" Glimcher was born on March 2,1938 and is an American art dealer, gallerist, film producer, and film director.
27 Facts About Arne Glimcher
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Arne Glimcher is the founder of Pace Gallery, which by 2011 sold more than $400 million in art annually.
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Arne Glimcher is the father of Marc Glimcher, who succeeded him as chairman of Pace, and American scientist Paul Glimcher.
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Arne Glimcher produced and directed several films, including The Mambo Kings and Just Cause.
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Arne Glimcher's father was a cattle rancher who owned a ranch in Minnesota.
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Arne Glimcher 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.
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Arne Glimcher later graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and pursued an MFA at Boston University, where he took classes with sculptor Harold Tovish.
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Dissatisfied with the quality of his own art, Arne Glimcher decided to pursue art history, hoping someday to be the director of the Museum of Modern Art.
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In 1960, at age 21, Arne Glimcher founded Pace Gallery in Boston.
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Arne Glimcher named the gallery after his father, who had recently died.
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In 1963, Arne Glimcher opened a second location for the gallery in New York City.
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Unable to compete at first with the established dealers of Pop Art, Arne Glimcher initially represented Western sculptors such as James Turrell and Robert Irwin.
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Arne Glimcher moved himself and his family to New York in 1965, closing the Boston location.
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Arne Glimcher began a publishing division of the company, Pace Editions, in 1968.
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In New York, Arne Glimcher became friends with the painter Mark Rothko, who lived nearby.
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In 1980, Arne Glimcher sold Jasper Johns's Three Flags to the Whitney Museum of American Art for $1 million, the first time a work by a living artist had ever commanded seven figures.
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Arne Glimcher represented his former MassArt classmate Brice Marden before Marden moved to another dealer, Mary Boone.
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Arne Glimcher bought a new large space in SoHo in 1990.
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In 2022, at age 83, Arne Glimcher opened an exhibition space in TriBeCa called Gallery 125 Newbury, named for the Pace Gallery's original address.
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Arne Glimcher made his feature-film debut in a small role as an art dealer in Robert Benton's 1982 film Still of the Night.
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Arne Glimcher later served as an associate producer on Ivan Reitman's 1986 film art-theft comedy Legal Eagles, for which the writers consulted him to add verisimilitude to the script; he choreographed Daryl Hannah's performance scene in the film.
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Arne Glimcher further developed a close friendship with Hollywood power broker Michael Ovitz, one of his regular clients.
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Arne Glimcher went on to produce Gorillas in the Mist, and The Good Mother, both released in 1988.
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Arne Glimcher received an Academy Award Best Original Song nomination for the film's original song, Beautiful Maria of My Soul, which was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.
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Arne Glimcher later directed the 1995 film Just Cause, an adaptation of a John Katzenbach novel with Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne in the lead roles.
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In 1999, Arne Glimcher directed The White River Kid which featured an ensemble cast, including Antonio Banderas from The Mambo Kings.
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In 2008, following encouragement from director Martin Scorsese, Arne Glimcher produced and directed the documentary film Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies.