"How to Draw a Bunny" Screening at Now Instant Image Hall
May 2, 2024
On the occasion of Los Angeles’s first solo exhibition of work by Ray Johnson, BLUM and Now Instant Image Hall are pleased to present a screening of John Walter and Andrew Moore’s critically acclaimed film, How to Draw a Bunny...
On Ray Johnson: Ellen Levy and Bryan Barcena in Conversation
April 20, 2024
On the occasion of Los Angeles’s first solo exhibition of work by Ray Johnson, BLUM is pleased to present a conversation on Johnson with Ellen Levy and Bryan Barcena...
Vogue | Anna Park Doesn't See Things In Black and White
April 20, 2024
As a very young South Korean-born girl growing up in Utah, Anna Park fell deeply and permanently in love with drawing...
Frieze | Oliver Lee Jackson’s Indeterminate Abstraction
April 16, 2024
The artist’s exhibition at Blum, Los Angeles, traces four decades of gestural painting that’s neither purely abstract nor figurative...
Yuji Ueda at BLUM Los Angeles
April 14, 2024
Shigaraki-based artist Yuji Ueda discusses the work in his current exhibition at BLUM Los Angeles...
Artillery | Publisher’s Eye: Yuji Ueda
March 27, 2024
Appearing as if they are on the verge of moving, Yuji Ueda’s ceramic vessels are complex, layered and their own abstracted compositions...
Ocula | Punk Provocateur Linder to Show at Hayward Gallery in 2025
March 26, 2024
London's Hayward Gallery will present a retrospective of British artist Linder from 11 February to 5 May 2025...
Oliver Lee Jackson in Conversation with Harry Cooper
March 16, 2024
On the occasion of Machines for the Spirit, Oliver Lee Jackson’s premier solo exhibition with the gallery and his first in Los Angeles since 1982, BLUM is pleased to present a conversation with the artist and Harry Cooper, Curator of Modern Art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC...
Culture Type | Tate Britain Commission Goes To Artist Alvaro Barrington
March 12, 2024
Tate Britain selected Alvaro Barrington (b.1983) for the next Tate Britain Commission. The annual commission is a site-specific work presented in the grand neo-classical Duveen Galleries of the London museum...
Art Sense | Frances Beatty, Managing Director of the Ray Johnson Estate
March 7, 2024
A conversation with Frances Beatty, Managing Director of the Ray Johnson Estate.
Curator-Led Walkthrough of "Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood"
February 28, 2024
On the occasion of Frieze Los Angeles, join us for a walkthrough of Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood at BLUM Los Angeles, led by exhibition curators Tim Blum and Mika Yoshitake...
The Art Newspaper | BLUM Gallery Looks Back on Three Decades of Bringing Japanese Contemporary Art to the US
February 26, 2024
The gallery’s 30th-anniversary show chronicles the Japanese art movements it has had a hand in popularising across the Pacific...
Art Basel | From a Kids’ TV Show to Deleuze: Mohamed Bourouissa’s Quest for Truth
February 12, 2024
Ahead of his retrospective at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the French-Algerian artist reflects on the roots of his multifaceted practice...
BLUM Selects Architecture Research Office (ARO) for New Tribeca Gallery
February 7, 2024
Renowned firm to restore and renovate 9 White Street...
ARTnews | Eddie Martinez to Represent San Marino at 2024 Venice Biennale
January 29, 2024
American artist Eddie Martinez will represent the Republic of San Marino, the small, landlocked country on the Italian peninsula, at the 2024 Venice Biennale...
Cultured | Why Artist Lynda Benglis Doesn’t Want Anyone Looking Up to Her
January 24, 2024
The prolific sculptor has a few key pieces of advice for rising artists on the scene, and plenty of anecdotes about her days making it in Los Angeles...
Art Basel | The Enduring Allure of Japan’s Traditional Crafts
January 15, 2024
Ceramics play a fundamental role in Japanese culture. Under the creative guidance of 16th-century tea masters like Sen no Rikyū, humble and rough-hewn pottery vessels were prized as highly refined cultural artifacts. The dynamically scarred and ruptured creations of the contemporary ceramic artist Yuji Ueda (b. 1975) question the conventions of this ancient medium in notable ways...
Ocula | Tim Blum Reflects on 30 Years in the Art Business
January 10, 2024
BLUM's anniversary exhibition, a survey of Japanese art going back to the 1960s, opens in Los Angeles on 13 January and in Tokyo on 20 January...
Art Basel | The Rise And Rise Of Alvaro Barrington
January 8, 2024
In just a few years since graduating from art school, the London-based artist has shot to international stardom. He's now set his sights on creating a new hybrid art space in the Whitechapel district...
Cultured | This Week in Culture: January 8 - 14
January 8, 2024
This exhibition, marking the gallery’s 30th anniversary (following its recent pivot from Blum & Poe to Blum), offers an intergenerational survey of Japanese art from the 1960s to the present...
Artillery | The Here and Now of It
January 2, 2024
Acaye Kerunen Finds Purpose and Community in a Scarred Landscape...
NPR | Lonnie Holley
December 29, 2023
'Oh Me Oh My': Finding grace after something hellified (a New Year's story)...
Lauren Quin: My Hellmouth | Book Launch and Signing
December 14, 2023
Celebrate the launch of My Hellmouth, artist Lauren Quin's first comprehensive monograph. Quin will be joined by artist and writer Juliana Halpert for a conversation at 7pm, followed by a cocktail reception and book signing...
Cultured | Dealers Tim Blum, Pamela Echeverría, and Ellie Rines Break Down the Phenomenon the Art World Loves to Hate
December 8, 2023
Three art dealers at different stages of their careers give CULTURED an exclusive look behind the curtain of today’s art fair ecosystem...
Holiday Book Sale
December 2, 2023
Join us for the annual BLUM holiday book sale this Saturday, December 2 from 10am to 6pm at BLUM Los Angeles...
