Barbara Gladstone

Barbara Gladstone (born Barbara Levitt) is an American art dealer and film producer.[1][2] She is owner of Gladstone Gallery, a contemporary art gallery with locations at 515 W. 24th Street, 30 West 21st Street in New York City and at 12 Rue du Grand Cerf in Brussels, Belgium.[3] Before moving to Chelsea in 1996, Gladstone Gallery was located in Soho and on 57th Street in New York City.

Barbara Gladstone
Born
United States
OccupationFilm producer, gallery owner, art dealer

In 1980, Gladstone gave up teaching art history at Hofstra University to open an art gallery in Manhattan.[4]

In the early 1990s, Gladstone 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.[5] Today, the gallery is also a prominent participant in many major art fairs.[6]

Gladstone Gallery today represents many contemporary artists, including:

In addition to living artists, Gladstone Gallery also handles the estates of the following:

Gladstone Gallery has in the past represented the following:

Since 2018, Gladstone has been serving on the board of the non-profit Artists Space.[16]

Film production

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

Stuart Regen Visionaries Fund

In 2008, Gladstone initiated the formation of the Stuart Regen Visionaries Fund at the New Museum, established in honor of her late son and renowned art dealer Stuart Regen. 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. It has featured prominent international thinkers in the fields of art, architecture, design and contemporary culture. Past speakers have included Jimmy Wales (2010), Alice Waters (2011), Maya Lin (2013), Hilton Als (2015) and Fran Lebowitz (2016, in conversation with Martin Scorsese).

Personal life

Gladstone was married to the late Elliot B. Regen.[17] She has 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.[18] Gladstone has a younger sister, Joan Steinberg.

References
  1. The New York Times
  2. The New York Times
  3. Roxana Azimi (May 1, 2008), Gladstone chooses Brussels for European gallery The Art Newspaper.
  4. Linda Yablonsky (December 1, 2011), Barbara Gladstone The Wall Street Journal.
  5. Roberta Smith (May 11, 1990), So Big and So Dressed Up, New Galleries Bloom in SoHo The New York Times.
  6. Sarah Thornton. Seven days in the art world. New York. ISBN 9780393337129. OCLC 489232834.
  7. Nate Freeman (September 5, 2017), Gladstone Gallery Now Represents Ian Cheng ARTnews.
  8. Ryan Steadman (November 16, 2015), O Canada! Another Artist Departs Lower East Side Gallery… Sort Of New York Observer.
  9. Kristen Tauer (October 8, 2019), Artist Anicka Yi Launching Fragrance With Dover Street Market Women's Wear Daily.
  10. Holland Cotter (October 29, 2019), Huang Yong Ping, 65, Dies; His Art Saw a World of Power Struggles The New York Times.
  11. Nate Freeman (April 28, 2017), Gladstone Gallery Now Represents the Estate of Robert Mapplethorpe ARTnews.
  12. Andrew Russeth (July 20, 2019), Marisa Merz, Key Arte Povera Figure and Relentlessly Inventive Sculptor, Is Dead at 93 ARTnews.
  13. Nate Freeman (April 20, 2017), Marlborough Contemporary Now Represents Ahmed Alsoudani ARTnews.
  14. Annie Armstrong (April 3, 2019), Lari Pittman Is Now Represented by Lehmann Maupin ARTnews.
  15. Hilarie M. Sheets (September 24, 2015), Richard Prince Takes a New Approach to Cowboys The New York Times.
  16. Artists Space Adds Barbara Gladstone to Board, Hires Heather Harmon as Development Director ARTnews, February 27, 2018.
  17. ENGAGEMENTS; Lili Abir, Richard C. Regen The New York Times, June 7, 1992.
  18. Myrna Oliver (August 20, 1998), Stuart Regen; Producer and Art Dealer Los Angeles Times.
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