Barbara Gladstone


Barbara Gladstone is an American art dealer and film producer. She is owner of Gladstone Gallery, a contemporary art gallery with locations in New York and Brussels.

Gladstone Gallery

History

In 1980, Gladstone gave up teaching art history at Hofstra University to open an art gallery in Manhattan.
In the early 1990s, 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.
Today, Gladstone Gallery operates spaces at 515 W. 24th Street, 30 West 21st Street in New York City and at 12 Rue du Grand Cerf in Brussels, Belgium. Before moving to Chelsea in 1996, Gladstone Gallery was located in Soho and on 57th Street in New York City. The gallery is also a prominent participant in many major art fairs.
In 2020, Gladstone Gallery merged with Gavin Brown's Enterprise.

Artists

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.

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, Alice Waters, Maya Lin, Hilton Als  and Fran Lebowitz .

Personal life

Gladstone was married to the late Elliot B. Regen. 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.
Gladstone has a younger sister, Joan Steinberg.