Art dealer who made some adventures in Hollywood by becoming a film producer and then film director. In the 1960's he founded his first gallery in Boston and a couple of years later he moved it to New York. The gallery in question was Pace Gallery which represents countless artists such as David Hockney, Tara Donovan and Kiki Smith and it also represents the estate of names like Pablo Picasso, Ad Reinhardt and Alexander Calder.

In 1982, he debuted as an actor on a small role in Robert Benton's Still of the Night (1982). By 1986, he was already producing his first feature film, the romantic comedy Legal Eagles (1986), directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Robert Redford and Debra Winger. 1988 has Arne producing two films: Leonard Nimoy's The Good Mother (1988) and the box-office hit Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988)~, which received several Oscar nominations.

Ten years after his entering in the film industry, Glimcher finally made it through and went on to direct his first movie, the acclaimed The Mambo Kings (1992) starring Antonio Banderas in his first Hollywood production and Armand Assante. The story of two Cuban brothers who bring Latin music to the U.S. in the 1950's conquered audiences and critics; and Glimcher received a nomination in the Best Original Song category.

He followed with the controversial thriller about death penalty Just Cause (1995) with Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne and Ed Harris; and the comedy The White River Kid (1999), which reunited him with Banderas.

He has two sons: Marc, who is an art dealer and Paul, who is a scientist.