Installation view, Stock Up for the Holidays: An Anthology of Pop Art, Dec 10, 1962 – Jan 2, 1963, Pace Gallery, Boston © 2025 Jim Dine / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © 2025 Morgan Art Foundation Ltd. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), courtesy The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative; © The Estate of Tom Wesselmann / Licensed by ARS / VAGA, New York Essays Pace Through the Decades Published Friday, Apr 25, 2025 In 1960, Arne Glimcher and his wife, Milly–while still students–founded Pace Gallery on Newbury Street in Boston, Massachusetts. On April 25, 2025, Pace celebrates 65 years since its founding and the beginning of a legacy dedicated to platforming art and artists internationally. In celebration of this anniversary, explore a snapshot of our gallery’s history through the decades, highlighting just a portion of our first exhibitions with artists including Louise Nevelson, Jean Dubuffet, Agnes Martin, Julian Schnabel, Sam Gilliam, and others. Read More 1960Pace Gallery is founded by Arne Glimcher, with its first exhibition opening on April 25. Read More Installation view, Louise Nevelson: Recent Sculpture, May 29 - Jun 24, 1961, Pace Gallery, Boston, MA © 2019 Estate of Louise Nevelson / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 1961Recent Sculpture, Pace’s first exhibition of work by Louise Nevelson, opens at 125 Newbury Street in Boston, Massachusetts on May 29. Read More As an art student I spent many weekends driving from Boston to New York to observe the scene. Each time I visited MoMA I was captivated by Nevelson’s Sky Cathedral. Afred Barr had brilliantly created an installation in a black alcove, producing an environment, a concept new to American art. I had never seen anything like it... Arne Glimcher Stock Up For the Holidays: An Anthology of Pop Art, December 10, 1962 – January 2, 1963, Pace Gallery, Boston 1962Josef Albers: Paintings, Pace’s first Josef Albers exhibition, opens in Boston.Stock Up For the Holidays: An Anthology of Pop Art opens Dec 10 at Pace’s Boston gallery. 1963Pace Gallery opens its doors at 9 West 57th Street in New York.1964Pace’s first Claes Oldenberg exhibition opens on May 11.First International Girlie Exhibit investigates the pin-up through the work of contemporary artists such as Marjorie Strider, Roy Lichtenstein and Tom Wesselmann. Installation view, Lucas Samaras: Selected Works 1960-1966, Oct 8 – Nov 5, 1966. Pace Gallery, 9 West 57th Street, New York © Lucas Samaras 1965Beyond Realism, the first museum-quality exhibition in contemporary commercial galleries, presents an analysis of the role of surrealism in Pop Art.1966Recent Work, Pace’s first exhibition of work by Paul Thek, opens April 2 in New York.Lucas Samaras: Selected Works 1960-1966, Pace’s first solo-exhibition to feature Samaras, opens October 8. 1967In 1967—the same year he would found Experiments in Art and Technology with Robert Rauschenberg—Robert Whitman’s exhibition Dark is shut down by the local health authorities due to the exhibition’s use of laser technology. Installation view, Jean Dubuffet: Painted Sculptures, Apr 13 – May 18, 1968, Pace Gallery, 9 West 57th Street, New York © Jean Dubuffet / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 1968Jean Dubuffet: Painted Sculptures, Pace’s first exhibition of work by Jean Dubuffet, opens at 9 West 57th Street in New York. Read More 1970Piet Mondrian: The Process Works opens April 11 in New York, featuring a fabricated salon based on Mondrian’s drawings.“I conceived the idea of building the Salon de Mme. B. from Mondrian’s plan, and with Harry Holtzman’s permission it was realized. In Mondrian’s text, Home, Street, City he writes about a material for the interior that is descriptive of all the properties of Formica. Harry Holtzman still retained Mondrian’s paint tubes and palette. Although the paint was mostly dry, we took them to the chemists at American Cyanimid, and from the pigment they matched colors and produced the panels out of which we constructed the Salon de Mme. B.”Arne Glimcher1973Pace’s first exhibition of work by Larry Bell opens on January 7 in New York. Installation view, Agnes Martin: New Paintings, Mar 1 – Apr 1, 1975, Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, New York © 2025 Estate of Agnes Martin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 1975Agnes Martin: New Paintings, Pace’s first exhibition of works by Martin, opens March 1 in New York“She bought an air-stream trailer and headed back to New Mexico, where she had previously lived and taught art, settling on a mesa in Cuba, New Mexico. After an absence from painting of six or seven years, she built a studio, planted vegetables, and began painting again.”Arne Glimcher, (opens in a new window) Adventures in Art: 40 Years at Pace © 2025 Estate of Agnes Martin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York © 2025 Estate of Agnes Martin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York One day in early 1975, Agnes appeared at the gallery, said she was painting again, and asked if we’d show her new work. A visit to New Mexico revealed the first red and blue paintings of 1974. Arne Glimcher, (opens in a new window) Adventures in Art: 40 Years at Pace Chuck Close, Linda, 1975-76 © Chuck Close 1976Pace opens Ad Reinhardt: Paintings, the gallery’s first exhibition of works by Reinhardt, on October 2.1977Eleven Ways to Use the Words to See, Pace’s first exhibition of work by Lee Krasner, opens February 19.Pace’s first exhibition of work by Chuck Close opens April 30.1978Pace’s first Mark Rothko exhibition, The 1958–1959 Murals, opens October 23. Grids: Format and Image in 20th Century Art, Pace Publishing, 1979 1979Pace publishes (opens in a new window) Grids: Format and Image in 20th Century Art. Made to accompany a 1979 group exhibition on view at Pace in New York and The Akron Art Institute, Ohio, this catalogue brings together historic works by Josef Albers, Carl Andre, Robert Irwin, Lee Krasner, Ellsworth Kelly, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Ad Reinhardt, Louise Nevelson, and Frank Stella, among others.The book includes a text by Rosalind Krauss, and its design alludes to the theme of the exhibition—the grid as a pictorial device and thematic element—through an overlay plastic grid cover.“In my continuing research for the book Modern Art and Modern Science, I investigated the grid, the most dominant aesthetic organizing device of the twentieth century. In the process, I conceived and organized the exhibition Grids, and invited Rosalind Krauss to write the catalogue. It would later become an important part of her work in The Originality of the Avant-Garde, published in 1981.”Arne Glimcher Lucas Samaras, Sittings 8 x 10, 1/13/79, 1979 © Lucas Samaras 1980The Whitney Museum of American Art acquires work by Jasper Johns.“The Whitney Museum of American Art has paid $1 million for a painting by Jasper Johns, believed to be the highest price ever for the work of a living artist. The 1958 painting, a famous precursor of the Pop Art movement, is Three Flags.”Grace Glueck for The New York Times, originally published September 27, 1980 1981Lucas Samaras: SittingsLee Krasner: SolsticeMark Rothko: The Surrealist Years1983Tony Smith: Paintings and Sculpture Installation view, Julian Schnabel, Nov 2 – Dec 1, 1984, Pace Gallery, New York © 2025 Julian Schnabel / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 1984Pace presents its first exhibition of work by Julian Schnabel.“I was introduced to Julian Schnabel’s work by Chuck Close, who asked me to meet him at Mary Boone’s gallery to see Julian’s first plate painting show. Chuck’s enthusiasm was infectious and I was very impressed by the sheer power and originality of Julian’s enterprise.”Arne Glimcher 1985Pace presents Calder’s Calders, the gallery’s first exhibition of work by Alexander Calder.1989Mark Rothko’s Seagram Murals are sold to Japan’s Kawamura Museum. Read More Je Suis le Cahier: The Sketchbooks of Picasso, 1986, Atlantic Monthly Press 1986Following the 1981 presentation of Pablo Picasso: The Avignon Paintings—Pace’s inaugural exhibition of works by Picasso—and The Sculpture of Picasso in 1982, Je Suis le Cahier: The Sketchbooks of Picasso opens at the gallery’s East 57th Street space.Je Suis le Cahier, the first exhibition to introduce Picasso’s sketchbooks to the world, traveled to numerous art institutions internationally following its run in New York. A (opens in a new window) catalogue devoted to this exhibition—edited by Arne and Marc Glimcher—remains a key resource on the artist.“The catalogue for the exhibition was a significant addition to the Picasso literature, published by Atlantic Monthly Press. The volume included a descriptive listing and image of each of the 175 sketchbooks in the estate.”Arne Glimcher, (opens in a new window) Adventures in Art: 40 Years at Pace Louise Nevelson Remembered, 1989, Pace Publishing 1989Published following Louise Nevelson’s passing in 1988, (opens in a new window) Louise Nevelson Remembered brings together materials that encompass the sculptor’s career, including brochures, accordion-fold leaflets, a collection of postcards, and loose images of her artworks.An interview with Nevelson by Arne Glimcher from 1976 accompanies twelve letters of remembrance by her friends and peers, among them Edward Albee, Lucas Samaras, Diana MacKown, Hilton Kramer, Jean Lipman, and John Cage. Pace Gallery, 142 Greene Street 1990In May 1990, Pace opens its gallery at 142 Greene Street with Julian Schnabel’s first sculpture exhibition.“When Leo Castelli decided to close his auxiliary space at 142 Greene Street, we took over the lease, because our artists wanted to show their work in SoHo, where they lived. We then embarked on a plan to create a new identity for the venue by extending our exhibition program.”Arne Glimcher, (opens in a new window) Adventures in Art: 40 Years at Pace Read More 1992Antoni Tàpies: Recent Works, Pace’s first exhibition of works by Tàpies, opens February 19.The Attic Series, Pace’s first exhibition of works by Robert Mangold, opens February 14.Pace’s first exhibition of work by Claes Oldenburg opens September 18.Drawing into Film: Director's Drawings opens March 26 in New York. The exhibition takes as its subject the tangible artifacts of the film director’s artistic process, from scripts and notes to storyboards and drawings. Installation view, Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Drawing, Apr 30– Jun 18, 1993, Pace Gallery, New York © 2025 Joel Shapiro / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 1993Pace’s first exhibition of work by Joel Shapiro—Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Drawing—opens April 30.1994Claes Oldenburg/Coosje van Bruggen Large–Scale Projects: Drawings and Sculpture1995Kiki Smith: New Work1996Lucas Samaras: Kiss Kill/Perverted Geometries/Inedibles/Self-Absrption 1998The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art acquires Robert Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning Drawing.With his Erased de Kooning Drawing, Rauschenberg set out to discover if an artwork could be made entirely through erasure, rather than accumulation. After first trying with his own works, the artist approached Willem de Kooning for a drawing to erase. Somewhat reluctantly, de Kooning agreed.Pace sold the artwork to SFMoMA, which the museum purchased through a gift of Phyllis Wattis, in 1998. Read More Arne and Marc Glimcher take in the view of Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood and beyond in Pace Gallery’s seventh-floor performance space. Photograph by Martien Mulder for W Magazine 2000-2020sThe 2000s saw our establishment in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, along with global expansion in Europe and Asia, meeting our artists and collectors where they are. Today, we continue to build new connections in communities across the world, most recently in Tokyo and Berlin. Read More My parents had a vision of a gallery that put art and artists above all. To underscore that idea, they named it Pace Gallery. Although this was an “inside” reference to my grandfather’s name, to the world it was meant to evoke the forward motion of artists’ dedication to our collective culture. Marc Glimcher, CEO In 2019, we opened our eight-story New York flagship in Chelsea, where we continue to make history through our exhibitions and Pace Live programming. We look forward to sharing the next chapters of our story with you in the coming months and years. Read More pace_live_trailer_16-9 Pace LiveSince launching Pace Live in 2019, we've brought over 100 events to global audiences—in-person at our galleries and online—including interdisciplinary performances, concerts, conversations, and more. Pace PublishingWith an enduring focus on original scholarship and innovative design, Pace Publishing has produced over 500 titles. Journal View All Pace Publishing 65 Years at Pace: Archival Titles and Posters Apr 01, 2025 Films Beyond LOVE: Rediscovering Robert Indiana Mar 27, 2025 Films Inside Jean Dubuffet's Alternate Reality Mar 24, 2025 Films Arne Glimcher on Louise Nevelson's Experimental Late Works Jan 31, 2025 Essays — Pace Through the Decades, Apr 25, 2025