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...
ArtReview | The Top 10 Exhibitions to See in April 2024
March 29, 2024
Anna Park: Look, look, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 20 April–8 September...
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...
The Art Newspaper | Five Artists Shortlisted to Create London’s First Ever Permanent HIV/Aids Memorial
March 12, 2024
Anya Gallaccio and Ryan Gander are among five artists shortlisted to create a permanent HIV/Aids memorial in London more than 40 years after the UK’s first Aids case was reported in December 1981...
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.
Flaunt | Umar Rashid: Under the Silver Moon
March 6, 2024
Umar Rashid contributes one of 25 art covers created for Flaunt’s 25th anniversary issue...
Wallpaper | Blum Marks 30 Years of Japanese Contemporary Art in America
March 5, 2024
‘Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood’ is co-curated by Tim Blum and art historian Mika Yoshitake and presents a survey of Japanese art from the 1960s to today...
Tim Blum on The Monocle Daily
March 1, 2024
The Monocle Daily visits the 2024 edition of Frieze Los Angeles to chat with Tim Blum about Los Angeles's place in the art world...
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...
The Art Newspaper | 13 Shows to See in and around Los Angeles during Frieze
February 25, 2024
Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood presents works created between 1959 and 2023 by more than two dozen artists associated with the gallery...
Tokyo Art Beat | The Beginning Place: Long Interview with Yoshitomo Nara
February 24, 2024
How does contemporary artist Yoshitomo Nara create his works, and what inspires him?...
Ocula | Acaye Kerunen Weaves Her Way Back to the Venice Biennale
February 15, 2024
Ocula Director Eva Fuchs met with the performance artist, weaver, poet, and writer at the Barbican...
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...
Design Scene | BLUM Celebrates 30 Years with ‘Written with a Splash of Blood’ Exhibition
January 29, 2024
Celebrating three decades of Japanese art...
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...
Flaunt | BLUM: Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood
January 19, 2024
A milestone celebration of Japanese contemporary art and its impact on the gallery...
Cultured | At 45, Sonia Gomes Left Behind a Legal Career to Become an Artist. Here’s What She’s Learned in the Three Decades Since
January 18, 2024
The Brazilian sculptor reveals how a youthful desire for visibility kicked off her art career, and explains the ties that bind her work to that of her peers...
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...
LA Weekly | The Swing of Things: Arts Calendar January 11–17
January 10, 2024
Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood at BLUM. A milestone exhibition celebrating the gallery’s 30th anniversary, installed across its three locations—Los Angeles, Tokyo, and New York...
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...
