ARTnews Japan | Art Is Something That Encompasses All of Life: Tim Blum Talks About the Conditions for “Good Art” and “Success”
October 2, 2024
We spoke with Tim Blum, co-founder of the gallery BLUM (formerly Blum & Poe), which will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2024, about the impact he experienced in Tokyo in the 1980s, his encounters with Yoshitomo Nara and Takashi Murakami, and his advice for young artists...
Juxtapoz | Eddie Martinez Has Done His "Homework"
September 18, 2024
Made from 2020 to 2024, Homework, on view now at BLUM in Los Angeles, Martinez has made what is often large canvases into a more compact presentation, smaller and more intimate and more akin to his drawing surfaces. Here, you really see the hand of the artist...
The Creative Independent | Visual Artist Lauren Quin on Quieting Your Mind to Focus on the Work
September 17, 2024
Visual artist Lauren Quin discusses working outside of your definitions and knowing what you want to be doing for life...
Wallpaper* | Los Angeles Art Exhibitions: The Best Shows to See in September
September 13, 2024
Read our pick of the best Los Angeles art exhibitions to see this month, from Marin Majic at the new Megan Mulrooney Gallery to Richard Orlinski's sculptures on Rodeo Drive...
Metal Magazine | Umar Rashid - Another Reality, Another World
September 10, 2024
Rashid gives insight into the emotional weight of dealing with historical trauma and how he uses humour, the superpower of the oppressed, to tackle serious issues, as well as into his current group show at Dallas Contemporary, Who’s afraid of cartoony figuration?...
Architectural Digest | Tour Artist Mimi Lauter's Magical Los Angeles Garden
September 6, 2024
There, the painter contemplates the cycle of life and the rapturous power of color...
The Art Newspaper | Anya Gallaccio: The Artist Casting Trees in Bronze, Planting an Orchard, and Letting Her Art Rot
September 5, 2024
Dissolution, uncertainty and paradox are the stock in trade of the British artist, whose latest works include trees as a metaphor for those living with HIV/Aids and casting chalk caves with a 3D printer...
Bijutsu Techo | Blum’s 30th Anniversary. Tim Blum Looks Back on His History in Japan and What’s Next
August 28, 2024
Tim Blum, co-founder of BLUM (formerly Blum & Poe), has been active as a bridge between the Japanese and American art scenes since his first visit to Japan in 1984. As the gallery celebrates its 30th anniversary, we spoke with him about its history, its activities in Japan, and its new space opening in New York this fall.
ArtNet | Talentspotter: Rising Stars of the Asian Diaspora
August 7, 2024
Read on for The Asia Pivot's pick of overseas-based emerging artists who are making waves in the art world...
Flaunt | Alejandro & Pascale Jodorowsky: Honey in All Hues, All Forms
August 1, 2024
“In order to find magic you have to believe in it,” says Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky, the other half of Alejandro Jodorowsky. “Magic is all around us. You need to open yourself to that...”
Artnet | Sam Moyer Joins BLUM—and More Essential Art Industry News
July 30, 2024
Paint Drippings is excerpted from The Back Room, our lively recap funneling only the week’s must-know art industry intel into a nimble read you’ll actually enjoy...
Monocle on Culture | Lonnie Holley
July 22, 2024
We highlight three events that should be on your radar, starting with a trip to London’s Royal Academy of Arts to explore Ukrainian modernism. Then we head to the south of France for this year’s edition of a major summer photography festival, before hearing from US artist Lonnie Holley at his new show at London’s Camden Art Centre, "All Rendered Truth"...
The New York Times | Move Over, La Guardia and Newark: 18 Artists to Star at New J.F.K. Terminal
July 16, 2024
Terminal 6 at Kennedy International Airport will feature work by Charles Gaines, Barbara Kruger and more. Developers of new terminals must invest in public art.
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...
Time Out | Lonnie Holley: ‘All Rendered Truth’
July 9, 2024
It’s all material to Lonnie Holley, everything. Past traumas, trash found on a creek bed, shared histories, scrap metal, the news, old padlocks. All of it can be twisted into new shapes by him...
Cultured | Sticking to Los Angeles This Summer? Here Are the 10 Must-See Exhibitions around the City
July 8, 2024
With “Quiet Inside,” Avery depicts domesticity the best way the artist knows how to—intimately, silently, and with an abundance of vibrancy...
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...
Ocula | 6 Artworks to See at Tokyo Gendai 2024
July 4, 2024
Ahead of the opening, Ocula Advisors select six must-see artworks at the fair, from Hiroto Tomonaga's abstract painting at KOSAKU KANECHIKA and Chien-Ying Tseng's ink-on-paper portrait at Each Modern to Yuji Ueda's blistering ceramic at BLUM...
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...
ARTnews | What to See in Tokyo before (And After) the Fair
July 3, 2024
The flight to Japan from art world centers like New York, London, and Paris isn’t exactly short. Those that do make the trip this year, however, won’t be disappointed with the art offerings, which span modern to contemporary. This week, during the Tokyo Gendai fair, the shows to see in the city are dominated by strong sculpture...
HypeArt | Hypeart Visits: Alvaro Barrington
July 2, 2024
The Venezuelan-born, Brooklyn-raised and London-based artist discusses his meteoric rise in the art world and his monumental Tate Britain installation...
ArtReview | The Top 10 Exhibitions to See in July 2024
July 1, 2024
From Les Rencontres d’Arles to Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, our editors on what they’re looking forward to this month...
Dezeen | JB Blunk Retrospective Exhibition Opens at the Fondation D’Entreprise Martell
June 28, 2024
An exhibition highlighting the life work of American sculptor JB Blunk is taking place at The Fondation d’entreprise Martell in Cognac, France, presenting the artist's first retrospective exhibition in Europe...
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...
