Peter Shear and Ross Simonini in Conversation
August 10, 2024
On the occasion of Reality Show, Peter Shear's first solo exhibition with BLUM, join us for a conversation with Shear and Ross Simonini...
Ryan Sullivan and Suzanne Hudson in Conversation
July 23, 2024
On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Los Angeles and the final day of Ryan Sullivan's current exhibition at BLUM Los Angeles, join us for a conversation with Sullivan and Los Angeles–based art historian and critic Suzanne Hudson...
Artist Walkthrough With Thomas Houseago
July 18, 2024
Join us July 18 in Tokyo for an artist walkthrough with Thomas Houseago on the occasion of MOON, the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery and his first in Japan.
Artnet | You Should Know Linder, the Art World’s Original Punk Provocateur
July 9, 2024
The radical feminist artist will be the subject of a major retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London in early 2025...
The Guardian | Lonnie Holley Review – America’s Wreckage Made into Magical Art
July 4, 2024
The artist and musician reclaims beauty and meaning from rubbish, decay and death, using materials from rusted padlocks to old organ pipes. It’s raw, inspiring and absolutely joyous...
The Brooklyn Rail | Pia Camil’s Friendly Fires
July 3, 2024
This monograph encapsulates a practice focused on collaboration and capitalist critique, while also opening to the artist’s ongoing evolution...
The Brooklyn Rail | Alvaro Barrington with Alex Bacon
July 3, 2024
Alvaro Barrington recently welcomed me to his sprawling studio complex in London’s Whitechapel neighborhood. Fresh from the opening of his installation at Tate Britain, his most ambitious to date, we discussed a wide range of subjects, including his grounding in painting, his study of art history, and the inspiration he draws from hip hop culture...
Pia Camil: "Friendly Fires" Book Launch Party
June 29, 2024
On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Los Angeles, join us for a book launch celebrating the first monograph dedicated to the practice of Mexico City-based artist Pia Camil...
Artnet News | Cult Favorite JB Blunk, Who Shunned Galleries, Is on the Rise
June 8, 2024
Noguchi was a friend, Sam Francis was a patron, and Charles Ray is his biggest fan. Now a new exhibition shines the spotlight on JB Blunk...
Whitewall | Los Angeles Spring Gallery Shows: A Season of Innovation and Reflection
May 30, 2024
BLUM Gallery’s retrospective of JB Blunk’s work is a celebration of the artist’s profound connection to nature. Blunk, a master woodworker and sculptor, is renowned for his organic, flowing forms that echo the natural landscape...
Ocula | In Los Angeles, Abstraction Takes Centre Stage
May 30, 2024
Leading the field is BLUM, known until Jeff Poe's departure last year as Blum & Poe. Since the gallery opened in 1994, abstraction has been a cornerstone of its programme; its new incarnation seems to be doubling down...
Tate Britain Commission: Alvaro Barrington | Tate Britain, London, UK
May 29, 2024 – January 26, 2025
Alvaro Barrington will be the next artist to undertake the annual Tate Britain Commission...
ARTnews Japan | Akane Saijo Joins BLUM
May 22, 2024
Ceramic artist Akane Saijo has joined BLUM, which has locations in Los Angeles, New York, and Tokyo....
LA Times | Jodorowsky’s Wild Art, Hockney’s ‘Turandot’ and the Best LA Culture to See Now
May 22, 2024
The iconoclastic Alejandro Jodorowsky, the 95-year-old Chilean-born cult film director, has traveled from his home Paris to L.A. for a weekend retrospective at the American Cinematheque. It’s his first visit in more than six years...
Ha Chong-hyun: Virtuoso
May 21, 2024
An emblematic figure in contemporary Korean art, painter Ha Chong-Hyun here reinterprets the iconic Lady Dior bag. Boris Bergmann pens a portrait of an extraordinary talent...
Cultured | Thinking of Extending Your Design Fair Trip in Los Angeles? Here Are This Month’s 9 Must-See Exhibitions in the City
May 20, 2024
This exhibition delves into late artist JB Blunk’s forays into pottery, a practice he learned after meeting Isamu Noguchi...
TOAST Magazine | March Avery, Depictions of an Endless Summer
May 20, 2024
March Avery’s languorous paintings are richly evocative of the summer. The American artist celebrates the in-between moments. In her 2017 oil painting A Light Breeze, two pink-skinned figures lounge at the front of a boat, one looking out to sea...
LA Times | Decades Ago, He Invented the Midnight Movie. It’s Still Long past His Bedtime
May 15, 2024
At 95, the Chilean-born cult director rejects being tied to a physical location or nationality, not even to this planet or to his own body...
Artnet | Rediscovered Gems and Famous Showstoppers Shine at TEFAF New York
May 10, 2024
The art fair has alighted once again at the Park Avenue Armory, and we've rounded up a few not-to-be-missed art moments...
Whitehot Magazine | Ray Johnson the Reclusive Genius Artist at BLUM Gallery in Los Angeles
May 4, 2024
Ray Johnson’s exquisite and crucial body of work—and the artistic network he was able to forge around that body and the sensibility behind it—turns out to be one of the driving forces in art...
"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...
Vogue | For the Artist Anna Park, Inspiration Is Everywhere
April 23, 2024
The Korean artist’s first Australian exhibition is on display at the Art Gallery of Western Australia now, and it’s a testament to her detailed, intricate process...
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...
