Book Marks

Marc Glimcher and Mark Pollard make the Odd Couple seem like clones. "He's A-list, I'm Zlist," says Pollard— an art-school dropout and ex-punk-rocker from Kenosha, Wisconsin. Glimcher, son of Manhattan's Pace Gallery owner turned moviemaker, Arnold, and a former Harvard science whiz, grew up surrounded by artists. Glimcher's arrival at Pace irritated Pollard, then the gallery's publications director. Glimcher: "He disliked me instantly.". Pollard: "He stole my projects." But together they "hatched so many ideas for books" they formed a publishing firm, Second Son Publications. (Now that one of their titles has become a hot Hollywood property, Gargoyles, they're into movies too.) Edited by Glimcher and designed by Pollard, their latest tome is The Art of Mark Rothko: Into an Unknown World (Clarkson Potter)—kick-started by Arnold's introduction. "Everything's totally family connections," overstates Glimcher, still Pace's assistant director. Adds Pollard, "Instead of telling our dreams to a roommate, we're talking to movers and shakers. All of a sudden, we're players."

AMY FINE COLLINS