Cultured | 14 "Cultured" Young Artist Alums Weigh In on What Their Careers Have Taught Them So Far

November 24, 2023

Ahead of the announcement of the annual Young Artists list next week, CULTURED caught up with talents who made the cut over the past seven years...

ArtReview | “Pictures Girls Make”: A Genre of Appearance

November 15, 2023

An exhibition at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles makes in portraiture an argument for an expansive, humanistic feminism...

The Face | Linder Sterling: ​“Each Generation Has to Look Out for Itself”

November 10, 2023

The natural-born rebel discusses making art to shock, performing seances in school toilets and her part in the Tate’s new Women in Revolt exhibition...

Flaunt | BLUM Gallery: Tom Anholt, Simphiwe Ndzube, and Sam Moyer

November 9, 2023

Three exhibitions run concurrently at BLUM in Los Angeles through December 16th...

Los Angeles Times | Weekly Countdown

November 8, 2023

From BLUM Gallery to the Huntington, exciting new art exhibits are all over L.A...

Artillery | Pick of the Week: Simphiwe Ndzube

November 8, 2023

“Have I ever felt strange suddenly being myself?” I thought after leaving Simphiwe Ndzube’s exhibition, “Chorus” at BLUM...

LA Weekly | Fall Back: Arts Calendar November 2–8

November 1, 2023

Expanding the reaches of his surrealist Mine Moon universe—the fictional location that has long functioned as the setting for the artist’s otherworldly vignettes—Ndzube perfects his use of oil paint...

Art Basel | Lonnie Holley on Making Treasures from Trash

October 14, 2023

The ‘insider’s outsider artist’ builds worlds from found objects and a rich personal history...

Numéro | Who Is Mohamed Bourouissa, One of the Greatest Artists of His Generation Featured on the Cover of Numéro Art 13?

October 13, 2023

One of the most respected artists of his generation, the Franco-Algerian is honoured this season with two shows programmed back to back, the first at LaM, near Lille, and the second at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo...

T Magazine: Eddie Martinez Defers to the Desires of His Paints

October 6, 2023

At his studio in Queens, the artist’s routine includes turkey meatballs, cut-up Crocs and the patience to let his materials set his pace...

Artillery: “Pictures Girls Make”: Portraitures – Curated by Alison M. Gingeras – Blum & Poe

October 5, 2023

The pictures people make of their lives...

Hyperallergic: 10 Shows to See in Los Angeles in October

October 4, 2023

Alison M. Gingeras has curated a diverse, revisionist survey of portraiture at Blum & Poe...

Curate LA: Beyond Boys Who Scribble: Celebrating Portraiture in ‘Pictures Girls Make’ at Blum & Poe

October 4, 2023

Curated by Alison M. Gingeras at Blum & Poe in Culver City, Pictures Girls Make: Portraitures, takes its titular reference from the famed quote by Elaine de Kooning describing her husband Willem’s derisive attitude towards portraits as “pictures girls make”...

Artsy: Fast Rising British Artist Danny Fox on the Five Artists Inspiring Him Right Now

September 28, 2023

"I first saw Eddie Martinez’s work in a zine of some kind in San Francisco in 2012. I was living in a van with my ex-wife and making little oil still lifes..."

Autre: Pictures Girls Make Inverts Archaic Norms through Portraiture @ Blum & Poe in Los Angeles

September 27, 2023

Blum & Poe presents "Pictures Girls Make": Portraitures, an exhibition bringing together over fifty artists from around the world, spanning the early nineteenth century until today...

Ocula: Mohamed Bourouissa Won’t Take a Single Position

September 20, 2023

Organized with Palais de Tokyo and curated by Marie-Amélie Senot, Mohamed Bourouissa's latest exhibition at Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary, and Outsider Art (LaM), which opens on 29 September, marks a return to the heart of the artist's practice...

Los Angeles Times: On My Mind

September 13, 2023

On Friday, I started my day by checking out Blum & Poe’s new exhibition, "Pictures Girls Make": Portraitures. The exhibition curated by Alison M. Gingeras gathers work from more than 50 artists from around the world, from the early 19th century to today...

KCRW: “Pictures Girls Make”: Portraitures at Blum & Poe

September 12, 2023

Figuration has been en vogue in recent years in the art world, but Blum & Poe’s ambitious new exhibition, curated by Alison M. Gingeras, focuses specifically on portraiture, and the vast history of the genre...

Art Basel: Editors’ Picks: Eight Shows to See in September

September 4, 2023

The ingredients of this expansive exhibition are beguiling: A fearless curator (Alison M. Gingeras), an infinitely rich topic (portraiture), and 59 fascinating artists spanning more than a century (including Joan Brown, Elaine de Kooning, and Yannis Tsarouchis)...

Cultured: This Week in Culture: August 28–September 3

August 28, 2023

In this week's exhibitions, MoMA takes on sustainable design, Rodney McMillian and Josh Smith offer odes to the color red, Umar Rashid presents another chapter in his durational historical fiction project, and more from around the world...

Juxtapoz: Umar Rashid’s Historical “Kagetora’s dream in the time of Sakoku. (Reds and Blues). Part 1” Kicks off the Fall

August 23, 2023

Good friend Umar Rashid's Kagetora’s dream in the time of Sakoku. (Reds and Blues). Part 1 taking place at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles...

Art Institute Chicago: What You Don’t See: Meditating on Korean Monochrome Painting

August 15, 2023

The seemingly minimalistic paintings of Dansaekhwa, or Korean monochrome painting, hold multiple layers of time, labor, and the creator’s spirit...

A brush with... Alvaro Barrington

August 15, 2023

Alvaro Barrington talks to Ben Lukeabout his influences—from writers to musicians and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work...

Frieze: Sonia Gomes Responds to Her Materials

August 9, 2023

Fernanda Brenner speaks to the artist about the way her work entangles different times, stories and locations...

Reader's Digest: 7 Contemporary Korean Artists You Need to Know

August 3, 2023

With Yun Hyong-keun's work on display for the first time at Hastings Contemporary this summer, we look at seven contemporary Korean artists you should know about...

Sep 9, 2023–Mar 17, 2024 📅 work by Robert Colescott is currently on view in “Black Artists of Portland” at the...
Follow along as artist Tom Anholt ( @tomanholt ) tells us about his solo exhibition “Sticks and Stones,” currently on...
You’re invited to join us at BLUM Los Angeles at 2pm on December 2 for an afternoon activating Simphiwe Ndzube’s...
Starting tomorrow, November 27 in the online book shop—take 25% off most books and merchandise through Wednesday...
Now open at the @metmuseum! Lee Ufan ( @ufanlee ) and Kwon Young-woo currently have work on view as part of “Lineages...
BLUM Los Angeles will be closed tomorrow, Thursday, November 23 through Monday, November 27 in observance of the...
BLUM is pleased to be participating in Art Basel Miami Beach ( @artbasel ) 2023...
Now available for pre-order in the BLUM online store ⭐️ Lauren Quin’s ( @lauren_quin_ ) “My Hellmouth” is the first...
Work by Lynda Benglis, Cecily Brown ( @aujourdhuirose ), Sonia Gomes ( @soniagomesarte ), and Francoise Grossen...
Today is the last day to see Darren Bader’s ( @moses_hosiery ) “Innate Value” at BLUM New York. “Innate Value” presents...
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