ARTnews Japan | Art Is Something That Encompasses All of Life: Tim Blum Talks About the Conditions for “Good Art” and “Success”
October 2, 2024
Maya Nago
Read hereMarc Glimcher of Pace, which opened a new base in Azabudai Hills, Tokyo, this year and expanded into Japan, said, "Pioneers like Tim Blum paved the way." No one would disagree that Tim Blum was the driving force behind connecting Japan's contemporary art scene to the world by introducing relatively unknown artists like Yoshitomo Nara and Takashi Murakami to the US (Blum was also the one who introduced the two to each other in the US). He first visited Japan in 1984 when he was still a student at UCLA. He was shocked by the underground culture scene in Tokyo, which he had never seen before, and after returning to Tokyo and working in a gallery, he co-founded the gallery Blum & Poe (now BLUM) in Santa Monica with Jeff Poe in 1994. Ten years later, he opened a Tokyo branch in Harajuku, which has been the mecca of Japanese subculture since the 1970s and has given birth to various movements.
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