Celebrating 65 Years at Pace

Throughout 2025, Pace is celebrating its 65th anniversary year with a series of exhibitions of work by artists who have been central to its program for decades. Presented around the world, these exhibitions are odes to some of the gallery's longest-lasting relationships with artists including Jean Dubuffet, Sam Gilliam, Robert Indiana, Robert Irwin, Robert Mangold, Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Joel Shapiro, Antoni Tàpies, and James Turrell. Over the course of their careers, these figures, with Pace's support, charted new courses in the history of art. Learn more about these shows and explore films, interviews, archival materials, and publications related to Pace's history on this continually updated hub.

Claes Oldenburg’s This & That: Sculptures You Can Hear
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Claes Oldenburg's This & That: Sculptures You Can Hear

In this new series of films produced on the occasion of This & That—an exhibition of Claes Oldenburg's work on view at our Tokyo gallery through August 23, 2025—the artist's daughter Maartje Oldenburg discusses the themes and subjects that inspired her father’s lively sculptures. Here, she discusses the artist’s ability to use everyday materials to realize intricate musical instruments as animated sculptural entities. “Depicted in transition, the instruments imply sound while signifying through silence renewal in death,” she says. Stay tuned for one more installment from this film series, coming to our digital channels this summer.

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How Claes Oldenburg Redefined What Sculpture Can Be

Pace Founder and Chairman Arne Glimcher recounts memories of his first encounters with Claes Oldenburg—with whom he would maintain a 60-year friendship—in the early 1960s. Oldenburg’s first solo exhibition with Pace, which took place in Boston in 1964, featured works from his sculptural installation The Store. Here, Glimcher discusses Oldenburg’s radical and uncanny ability to transform everyday objects into animated sculptural entities, and how the artist changed “the history of what sculpture can be.”

Artists on Artists: Hank Willis Thomas x Robert Indiana
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Artists on Artists: Hank Willis Thomas x Robert Indiana

As part of our Artists on Artists series, Hank Willis Thomas visits our exhibition Robert Indiana: The American Dream, on view at our 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York through August 15, 2025. Reflecting on his experiences of Indiana’s work during his childhood, Thomas discusses the layered references embedded in the paintings and sculptures in the show. With a particular focus on the “subtle political intonations in the work,” he takes us on a short tour through the presentation, sharing and discussing his favorite Indiana artworks along the way.

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Claes Oldenburg's This & That: Animating the Ice Cream Cone

Claes Oldenburg's daughter Maartje Oldenburg discusses the subjects and themes that inspired her father's lively sculptures. Here, she shares insights on Oldenburg's long-lasting experimentations with the formal possibilities of ice cream. With his depictions of decadent desserts, Maartje says, the artist engaged the viewer in "disguises of representational art."

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James Turrell's Art of Opulence and Light

“It was one of those religious moments—it was an astonishing occurrence, a magic act,” Pace Founder and Chairman Arne Glimcher says of his first encounter with James Turrell's work some 60 years ago. On the occasion of The Return—Turrell's first solo exhibition in Seoul since 2008—Glimcher shares his memories of Turrell's early work and reflects on the evolution of the artist's practice over the years.

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Artists on Artists: Robert Longo x Robert Irwin

For our Artists on Artists series, Robert Longo steps inside our exhibition of Robert Irwin’s work in Los Angeles. Here, Longo reflects on his first meeting with Irwin in the 1970s in Buffalo, New York—an encounter that has stayed with him since then.

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Feeling and Experiencing Robert Irwin's Art

This new film—produced on the occasion of Robert Irwin in Los Angeles, on view at our LA gallery through June 7, 2025—sheds light on Irwin's monumental impact on the California Light and Space movement. Here, Arne Glimcher, who maintained a close friendship with the artist for almost 60 years, shares memories of his early experiences with Irwin and his work, including the gallery's 1974 presentation of Robert Irwin: Soft Wall in New York.

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Robert Indiana's Prescient Reflections on the American Dream

This film centers on Robert Indiana's critique of the American Dream—both its promise and its privations—through his work across painting and sculpture. Here, insights from Pace's co-founder Milly Glimcher, Pace's CEO Marc Glimcher, and Pace's Chief Curator Oliver Shultz situate Indiana's work from the 20th century in the context of America's political environment today.

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Sam Gilliam and Kenneth Noland: Celebrating Color

Produced in conjunction with our presentations of work by Sam Gilliam and Kenneth Noland at our Seoul and Tokyo galleries in 2025, this film sheds light on the two artists' monumental contributions to postwar American painting and their impact on the global history of art, featuring commentary from Pace Founder and Chairman Arne Glimcher; Senior Vice President Youngjoo Lee, who leads the Seoul gallery; and Vice President Kyoko Hattori, who helms the Tokyo gallery.

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Artists on Artists: Robert Nava x Jean Dubuffet

In this film, Robert Nava steps inside Jean Dubuffet's uncanny world at our New York gallery. Nava—whose New York exhibition After Hours runs concurrently with our Dubuffet presentation—speaks about the "play and obsessiveness" in the paintings, sculptures, and architectural models of the Hourloupe cycle, the longest lasting series of Dubuffet's career.

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Beyond LOVE: Rediscovering Robert Indiana

In this film, Pace CEO Marc Glimcher discusses the cultural impact of Robert Indiana's LOVE image, a globally-recognized icon that in many ways eclipsed his role in the Pop Art movement of the 1960s and the history of art itself. On the occasion of our exhibition of Indiana's work in Hong Kong—and ahead of another presentation of his work at our New York gallery this May—Glimcher offers a more well-rounded picture of the artist, his work, and his legacy. "This is Robert Indiana's moment to emerge out from behind the LOVE sculpture," he says.

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Inside Jean Dubuffet's Alternate Reality

On the occasion of our New York exhibition of work from Jean Dubuffet's Hourloupe cycle, Pace Founder and Chairman Arne Glimcher recounts his early experiences with the artist in the 1960s and looks back on the gallery's first exhibition of his work in 1968. In this film, featuring rarely seen archival photographs and footage, Glimcher also sheds light on the significance of the Hourloupe—Dubuffet's longest lasting series, comprising painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, and architecture—in the context of the artist's practice. "The grotesque becomes beautiful, the beautiful becomes banal—the work is dancing," he says.

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Arne Glimcher on Louise Nevelson's Experimental Late Works

Pace Founder and Chairman Arne Glimcher speaks about his decades-long friendship with Louise Nevelson and discusses her impact on the history of art. Interviewed on the occasion of Shadow Danceour New York exhibition of Louise Nevelson's sculptures and collages from the 1970s and 1980s—Glimcher also sheds light on the nuances of Nevelson's late works, in which she explored a new vocabulary of robust, muscular, and often minimal forms.

Anniversary Exhibitions

Portrait of Jean Dubuffet

Jean Dubuffet

The Hourloupe Cycle

Mar 13 – Apr 26, 2025
New York

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Reverse Alchemy

Dubuffet, Basquiat, Nava

May 2 – Jun 14, 2025
Berlin

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Sam Gilliam

The Flow of Color

Jan 10 - Mar 29, 2025
Seoul

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Sam Gilliam

The Flow of Color

Mar 7 - May 6, 2025
Tokyo

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Portrait of Robert Indiana

Robert Indiana

The Shape of the World

Mar 25 – May 9, 2025
Hong Kong

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Robert Indiana

The American Dream

May 9 – Aug 15, 2025
New York

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Portrait of Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin in Los Angeles

Apr 5 – Jun 7, 2025
Los Angeles

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Robert Mangold

Pentagons and Folded Space

May 9 – Aug 15, 2025
New York

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Portrait of Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin

Nov 7 – Dec 20, 2025
New York

Portrait of Louise Nevelson

Louise Nevelson

Shadow Dance

Jan 17 – Mar 1, 2025
New York

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Louise Nevelson

The Fourth Dimension

Apr 11 - May 17, 2025
Seoul

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Kenneth Noland in his studio

Kenneth Noland

Paintings 1966–2006

Jan 10 – Mar 29, 2025
Seoul

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Kenneth Noland

Paintings 1966–2006

Mar 7 – May 6, 2025
Tokyo

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Claes Oldenburg

This & That

Jul 17 – Aug 23, 2025
Tokyo

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Portrait of Joel Shapiro

Joel Shapiro

Works from 1975–2024

Jan 17 – Feb 22, 2025
Tokyo

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Portrait of Antoni Tàpies

Antoni Tàpies

Nov 7 – Dec 20, 2025
New York

Portrait of James Turrell

James Turrell

The Return

Jun 13 – Oct 25, 2025
Seoul

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Pace Publishing

65 Years at Pace

Archival Titles and Posters

Curated on the occasion of Pace’s 65th anniversary this year, this collection of rare posters, editions, and titles from Pace Publishing celebrates the artists and exhibitions that have shaped the gallery over the past six-and-a-half decades.

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