[5] In 1980, Gladstone gave up her job at Hofstra to open an art gallery in Manhattan,[6] where she began showing Jenny Holzer.
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.
[10] In addition, Gladstone Gallery operates spaces at 530 West 21st Street and at 12 Rue du Grand Cerf in Brussels.
[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.
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).