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...
November 15, 2023
An exhibition at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles makes in portraiture an argument for an expansive, humanistic feminism...
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...
November 9, 2023
Three exhibitions run concurrently at BLUM in Los Angeles through December 16th...
November 8, 2023
From BLUM Gallery to the Huntington, exciting new art exhibits are all over L.A...
November 8, 2023
“Have I ever felt strange suddenly being myself?” I thought after leaving Simphiwe Ndzube’s exhibition, “Chorus” at BLUM...
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...
October 14, 2023
The ‘insider’s outsider artist’ builds worlds from found objects and a rich personal history...
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...
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...
October 5, 2023
The pictures people make of their lives...
October 4, 2023
Alison M. Gingeras has curated a diverse, revisionist survey of portraiture 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”...
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..."
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
August 15, 2023
The seemingly minimalistic paintings of Dansaekhwa, or Korean monochrome painting, hold multiple layers of time, labor, and the creator’s spirit...
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...
August 9, 2023
Fernanda Brenner speaks to the artist about the way her work entangles different times, stories and locations...
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...