It must have been fun growing up for Lucas Zwirner, the 24-year-old son of the New York-based mega-dealer David Zwirner. His childhood playground was a gallery; his role models were artists, including the late rabble-rouser and installation artist Jason Rhoades. “I knew Jason as a little boy. He was my father’s closest friend back in the day,” Lucas told members of the press at an event in New York on 21 July. He recalled how Rhoades once installed a Honda XR50 motorbike in the gallery. Fortunately for Lucas, “the piece didn’t sell and I got to ride this 55cc dirt bike for a summer.” Lucas has a lot of stories like this, and that’s why he is now producing the Jason Rhoades Oral History Project. Selections from the dozens of interviews he has conducted so far will be included in a forthcoming book on Rhoades, PeaRoeFoam, out later this year from David Zwirner Books. The project is only the beginning of many for Lucas: In September he will officially join the family empire, as editor of the standalone publishing house which launched last year.