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Barbara Gladstone

Barbara Gladstone (née Levitt; May 21, 1935 – June 16, 2024) was an American art dealer and film producer.[1][2] She was owner of Gladstone Gallery, a contemporary art gallery with locations in New York and Brussels.

Barbara Gladstone
Born
Barbara Levitt

(1935-05-21)May 21, 1935
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedJune 16, 2024(2024-06-16) (aged 89)
Paris, France
Occupations
  • Gallery owner
  • art dealer
  • film producer
Spouses
  • Leonard Gladstone
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    (divorced)​
  • Elliot B. Regen
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    (divorced)​
Children3

Background

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Barbara Levitt was born in Philadelphia on May 21, 1935.[3] She began collecting in the 1970s, alongside a job teaching art history at Hofstra University.[3]

She was married twice, to Elliot Regen and Leonard Gladstone ; both marriages ended in divorce.[3][4] She 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.[5]

Career

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In 1980, Gladstone gave up her job at Hofstra to open an art gallery in Manhattan,[6] where she began showing Jenny Holzer.[7]

From 1989 to 1992, Gladstone Gallery collaborated with Christian Stein, an Italian art gallerist, on SteinGladstone. Located in a renovated firehouse at 99 Wooster Street in Soho, the gallery concentrated exclusively on rarely seen installation works by both Italian and American artists.[8]

Gladstone Gallery staged Matthew Barney's first New York solo show in 1991 and has since introduced many international artists to an American audience.[9] Before moving to Chelsea in 1996, the gallery was located in Soho and on 57th Street in New York City. In 1996, the gallery teamed up with two other galleries – Metro Pictures and Matthew Marks Gallery – to acquire and divide up a 29,000 sq ft (2,700 m2) warehouse at 515 West 24th Street.[10] In addition, Gladstone Gallery operates spaces at 530 West 21st Street and at 12 Rue du Grand Cerf in Brussels.[11]

The gallery is also a prominent participant in many major art fairs.[12]

In 2002, Gladstone brought Curt Marcus on as partner for several years.[13][10] In 2020, Gladstone Gallery merged with Gavin Brown's Enterprise and made Gavin Brown a partner.[14]

Beginning in 2018, Gladstone served on the board of the non-profit Artists Space.[15]

Film production

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Gladstone produced many of Matthew Barney's movies, including four films from The Cremaster Cycle and the 2006 movie Drawing Restraint 9,[16] a collaboration between Barney and Björk. Gladstone appears in Drawing Restraint 13, a later film by Barney. Gladstone also produced Shirin Neshat's film Women Without Men.[citation needed]

Stuart Regen Visionaries Fund

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In 2008, 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.[17] The gift is meant to support a series of public lectures and presentations by cultural visionaries and debuted in 2009 with choreographer Bill T. Jones.[18] It has featured prominent international thinkers in the fields of art, architecture, design and contemporary culture. Past speakers have included Jimmy Wales (2010),[19] Alice Waters (2011),[20] Maya Lin (2013),[21] Hilton Als (2015),[22][23] and Fran Lebowitz (2016, in conversation with Martin Scorsese).[24]

Personal life and death

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From 2005 until 2012, Gladstone maintained a residence at 165 Charles Street, a residential tower designed by Richard Meier.[25] She later moved to a townhouse in Chelsea.[26]

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. She was 89.[3][27]

References

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  1. ^ "Barbara Gladstone - T Magazine Blog". archive.nytimes.com. March 27, 2012. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  2. ^ "Barbara Gladstone Gallery - T Magazine Blog". archive.nytimes.com. September 26, 2011. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d Heinrich, Will (June 20, 2024). "Barbara Gladstone, 89, Dies; Art Dealer With a Personal Touch and Global Reach". The New York Times. Vol. 173, no. 60193. pp. B11. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  4. ^ Engagements: Lili Abir, Richard C. Regen The New York Times, June 7, 1992.
  5. ^ Myrna Oliver (August 20, 1998), Stuart Regen; Producer and Art Dealer Los Angeles Times.
  6. ^ Linda Yablonsky (December 1, 2011), Barbara Gladstone The Wall Street Journal.
  7. ^ "The 7 Women Who Defined the New York Art World". W Magazine. September 12, 2018. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  8. ^ Roberta Smith (May 11, 1990), So Big and So Dressed Up, New Galleries Bloom in SoHo The New York Times.
  9. ^ Jerry Saltz (July 23, 2020), What Is Lost With the Closing of Gavin Brown's Enterprise New York Magazine.
  10. ^ a b Douglas, Sarah (December 17, 2020). "In Making Gavin Brown a Partner, Barbara Gladstone Is Betting That You Can Get Big and Still Think Small". ARTnews.com. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  11. ^ Roxana Azimi (May 1, 2008), Gladstone chooses Brussels for European gallery The Art Newspaper.
  12. ^ Sarah Thornton (October 27, 2009). Seven days in the art world. New York. ISBN 9780393337129. OCLC 489232834.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  13. ^ Carol Vogel (September 6, 2002), Gallery Consolidation The New York Times.
  14. ^ Jason Farago (July 20, 2020), Gavin Brown Closes His Gallery and Joins Forces With Barbara Gladstone The New York Times.
  15. ^ Artists Space Adds Barbara Gladstone to Board, Hires Heather Harmon as Development Director ARTnews, February 27, 2018.
  16. ^ Davis, Ben. "artnet Magazine - The Unbearable Lightness of Barney". www.artnet.com. Retrieved May 8, 2021.
  17. ^ "Artforum.com". www.artforum.com. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
  18. ^ "art-agenda". www.art-agenda.com. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
  19. ^ Walleston, Aimee (April 13, 2010). "Wikipedia A Wide Net". ARTnews.com. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
  20. ^ Sierra, Gabrielle. "New Museum Announces Alice Waters as the 2011 Stuart Regen Visionary". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
  21. ^ "Exhibitions". New Museum Digital Archive. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
  22. ^ "Hilton Als: 2015 Stuart Regen Visionary Speaker". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
  23. ^ Greenberger, Alex (September 18, 2015). "'None of That Cartier-Bresson Stuff': Hilton Als Addresses Diane Arbus at the New Museum". ARTnews.com. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
  24. ^ "Fran Lebowitz as the 2016 Stuart Regen Visionaries Series speaker". DAMN° Magazine. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
  25. ^ Kim Velsey (November 29, 2012), A Done Deal: Barbara Gladstone Abandons Richard Meier's Glass Tower The New York Observer.
  26. ^ Sarah Medford (September 10, 2020), A Peek Inside the Elite Homes of the Art World WSJ..
  27. ^ Barbara Gladstone, Influential New York Art Dealer, Dies at 89
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