Category: Gallerist
Nationality: American
Last Year: 22
No one was immune to the economic crisis, and PaceWildenstein, one of the largest, most professional and oft-envied galleries in New York, had to lay off 12 percent of its staff. Things are not all bad, though. Glimcher brokered what must be one of the artworld’s largest private sales: $310 million in Rothkos from the Merkin collection to an anonymous buyer. Sterling Ruby and David Hockney joined the gallery. Lucas Samaras represented Greece at the Venice Biennale. And Glimcher launched Artifex Press, a first-of- its-kind digital publishing platform for the production and distribution of catalogues raisonnés (Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin and Chuck Close are in the lineup); oh, and Pace celebrates its 50th anniversary this spring.