Barbara Gladstone was an American art dealer and film producer.
13 Facts About Barbara Gladstone
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Barbara Gladstone was owner of Gladstone Gallery, a contemporary art gallery with locations in New York and Brussels.
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Barbara Gladstone began collecting in the 1970s, alongside a job teaching art history at Hofstra University.
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Barbara Gladstone had two sons, David and Richard Regen; her third son, Stuart Regen, died in 1998 at USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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In 1980, Barbara Gladstone gave up her job at Hofstra to open an art gallery in Manhattan, where she began showing Jenny Holzer.
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From 1989 to 1992, Barbara Gladstone Gallery collaborated with Christian Stein, an Italian art gallerist, on SteinBarbara Gladstone.
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Barbara Gladstone Gallery staged Matthew Barney's first New York solo show in 1991 and has since introduced many international artists to an American audience.
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In 2002, Barbara Gladstone brought Curt Marcus on as partner for several years.
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In 2020, Barbara Gladstone Gallery merged with Gavin Brown's Enterprise and made Gavin Brown a partner.
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Barbara Gladstone appears in Drawing Restraint 13, a later film by Barney.
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In 2008, Barbara Gladstone initiated the formation of the Stuart Regen Visionaries Fund at the New Museum, established in honor of her late son the art dealer Stuart Regen.
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From 2005 until 2012, Barbara Gladstone maintained a residence at 165 Charles Street, a residential tower designed by Richard Meier.
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Barbara Gladstone died from an apparent stroke on June 16,2024, at a hospital in Paris; she had traveled to the city on a work trip.