[5] In the Pace's first year, Glimcher primarily showed the work of professors from his MFA program--including Lawrence Kupferman, David Berger, and Albert Alcalay--and the gallery lost money.

Unable to compete at first with the established dealers of Pop Art, Glimcher initially represented Western sculptors such as James Turrell and Robert Irwin.

After the artist's death, his heirs and executors fought a decade-long legal battle known as the Rothko case with his former gallery, Marlborough Fine Art.

[5] In 1980, Glimcher sold Jasper Johns's Three Flags to the Whitney Museum of American Art for $1 million, the first time a work by a living artist had ever commanded seven figures.

[8] The Pace Gallery has represented contemporary artists including Julian Schnabel,[9] Tara Donovan,[10] David Hockney,[8] Maya Lin[11] and Kiki Smith.

[12] As of 2010, Pace also represented the estates of artists including Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Agnes Martin, Jean Dubuffet, Zhang Xiaogang, Robert Ryman, and Chuck Close.

[5] After a tip from a friend, he read and bought the rights to Oscar Hijuelos's novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love before its publication.

After the novel won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Glimcher began to shop it around to studios, eventually winning the backing of Universal Pictures chairman Tom Pollock for a low-budget film.

[20] Glimcher later directed the 1995 film Just Cause, an adaptation of a John Katzenbach novel with Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne in the lead roles.

It explores the connection between early Cubist work by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and the birth of motion pictures in Paris by directors such as Auguste and Louis Lumière.