Pace Gallery Founder Arne Glimcher Criticizes Met Museum Over Planned Galliano Show: Report
Pace Gallery founder Arne Glimcher is among politicians and public figures criticizing the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s planned John Galliano exhibition, according to a New York Times report published Friday. Galliano, a fashion designer convicted of a hate crime in France in 2011 for antisemitic comments, later apologized, went to rehab, and returned to the industry as creative director of Maison Margiela from 2014 to 2024. The show is slated to be the Costume Institute’s major May exhibition next year, when the Met Gala’s traditional first Monday in May would fall on Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), and the Times reported multiple donors have threatened to rescind or withhold gifts since the show was announced in July. The Times said Glimcher emailed Met curator David Breslin warning of the “cost” of the decision and that he and his wife Milly were reconsidering planned bequests, while Elisha Wiesel called the show a “pretty bad idea” and New York City Council speaker Julie Menin labeled it “a serious mistake” in a letter to Met director Max Hollein, Costume Institute head Andrew Bolton, and Vogue editorial director Anna Wintour.
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