Grace Glueck

Grace Glueck (July 24, 1926 – October 8, 2022) was an American arts journalist. She worked for The New York Times from 1951 until the early 2010s.

Early life Glueck was born in New York City on July 24, 1926. Her father, Ernest, worked as a municipal bond salesman on Wall Street until the Great Depression and subsequently became an insurance broker; her mother, Mignon (Schwarz), was a housewife who wrote in community papers. Glueck was raised in Rockville Centre, where she attended high school. She then studied English at New York University, graduating in 1948. During her studies there, she was the editor of The Apprentice, the school's literary magazine. In that capacity, she interviewed Marcel Duchamp (1965) and Georgia O'Keeffe (1970). Cynthia Carlson, Joseph Glasco, George Grosz, Max Weber, Oscar Florianus Bluemner, Mike Kelley, Robert Arneson, Jackie Ferrara, Ad Reinhardt, Joel Meyerowitz, Lucas Samaras, Aldo Tambellini, and Carmen Herrera, among others.

After learning that the Times was not promoting women to the top editorial positions in 1969, Glueck wrote a note to Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, ending with: "Why were no women included?" and New York: The Painted City (1992). She also wrote for The New Criterion, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Personal life, death, and legacy Glueck married Milt Freudenheim, a fellow Times reporter, in October 2000. They remained married until his death in January 2022. They did not have children together, with Freudenheim having four children from his previous marriage. ArtNews, and the Clemente Course.