Alvaro Barrington + foreigner present ROADBLOCK™ RALLY 2022
April 30, 2022
Blum & Poe, Alvaro Barrington, foreigner, and Saint George Projects join to convert 5880 Adams Blvd (Culver City) into a proper proper Afro + Caribbean arena experience celebrating the food + the music + the people + the art that makes our carnival unique...
Alvaro Barrington and Angie Martinez in Conversation
April 24, 2022
On the occasion of 91–98 jfk–lax border, Alvaro Barrington's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Blum & Poe is pleased to present a conversation with Barrington and Angie Martinez...
Theodora Allen: Saturnine | Book Launch and Musical Performance
February 26, 2022
In celebration of Saturnine, the first monograph on Los Angeles-based artist Theodora Allen, and the final day of Allen's exhibition Syzygy at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, join us for a book launch featuring live music by multi-instrumentalists Blake Mills and Sam Gendel...
Penny Slinger: 50% The Visible Woman | Book Launch and Signing
December 18, 2021
In celebration of the 50 year anniversary edition of Penny Slinger's iconic 1971 artists' book 50% The Visible Woman and the final day of Slinger's exhibition 50/50 at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, join us for a conversation with the artist, followed by a Q&A and book signing...
Blum & Poe Holiday Book Sale
December 18, 2021
Visit Blum & Poe, Los Angeles on Saturday, December 18 for a holiday book sale...
Colescott Night: Comedy and Performances Curated and Hosted by Melissa DuPrey
December 13, 2021
Colescott Night: Comedy and Performances Curated and Hosted by Melissa DuPrey will include DJ sets by Sadie Woods; a screening of Robert Colescott’s Dulacrow’s Masterwork: A Mockumentary Film (1976); and the main program featuring Taneshia “Just Nesh” Rice, Calvin Evans and Windy Indie...
Lonnie Holley: Musical Performance and Q&A
December 4, 2021
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale celebrates Art Basel Miami Beach and the exhibition The Art of Assemblage with an in-person and live stream event with artist, musician, and educator Lonnie Holley...
TWO x TWO Gala & Auction | The Rachofsky House, Dallas, TX
October 23, 2021
TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art is an annual contemporary art auction held at The Rachofsky House in Dallas, benefiting two organizations...
Gallery Weekend Los Angeles
July 31, 2021
Blum & Poe is pleased to participate in the inaugural edition of Gallery Weekend Los Angeles, organized by Gallery Association Los Angeles (GALA)...
SUMMER SUNDAYS
July 18, 2021
Visit Blum & Poe, Los Angeles on a SUMMER SUNDAY until August 14....
On Yoshitomo Nara: A Conversation with Yeewan Koon & Mika Yoshitake on Instagram Live
October 14, 2020
Blum & Poe and Pace present On Yoshitomo Nara: A Conversation with author Yeewan Koon & curator Mika Yoshitake on the occasion of Yoshitomo Nara's exhibition at LACMA...
On Harvey Quaytman | Apsara DiQuinzio, Suzanne Hudson, Lindsay Preston Zappas | Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
December 7, 2019
Apsara DiQuinzio, Suzanne Hudson, and Lindsay Preston Zappas discuss the life and work of the artist Harvey Quaytman. This event was presented alongside the exhibition of Harvey Quaytman's work on view at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles from November 9, 2019 – January 11, 2020....
On Harvey Quaytman | Apsara DiQuinzio and Suzanne Hudson moderated by Lindsay Preston Zappas
December 7, 2019
Blum & Poe is pleased to host a discussion with Apsara DiQuinzio and Suzanne Hudson, moderated by Lindsay Preston Zappas, on the life and work of the artist Harvey Quaytman...
Penny Slinger in Conversation at NeueHouse Hollywood, Los Angeles
November 11, 2019
Penny Slinger is an artist, a radical, and a survivor. Her extraordinary body of work reaches back to 1960s counter-cultural London, and in the years that followed, brought the feminine psyche to surrealism, discovered the tool kit of Tantra, and was sex positive before "sex positivity" was invented...
>BTWN< Kandis Williams Presents Eurydice | Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
August 17, 2019
Performance by Kandis Williams featuring movement by Josh Johnson and music by Patrick Belaga, and in dialog with Bracha L. Ettinger...
>BTWN< Jim Shaw and Jodi Wille | Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
August 10, 2019
Jim Shaw and Jodi Wille present and discuss rare filmic clips from their respective archives, followed by music by Shaw and friends within an installation of the artist's creation...
>BTWN< Lizzi Bougatsos + Kim Gordon x Penny Slinger | Blum & Poe Los Angeles
August 8, 2019
Lizzi Bougatsos and Kim Gordon perform sonic improvisation to the projections of artist Penny Slinger's early experimental silent films from 1969...
>BTWN< No Drama! With Casey Jane Ellison | Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
August 3, 2019
Casey Jane Ellison presents a gorgeous night of comedy featuring Dicey, Daniel Webb, Brodie Reed, Chase Bernstein, and Ayo Edebiri...
In Conversation: Tony Lewis & Hamza Walker | Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
June 29, 2019
Blum & Poe is pleased to host a discussion with artist Tony Lewis and curator Hamza Walker, on the occasion of Lewis' exhibition Charlatan And Ultimately A Boring Man at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles...
In Conversation: Tony Lewis & Hamza Walker | Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
June 29, 2019
Artist Tony Lewis and curator Hamza Walker in conversation on the occasion of Lewis' exhibition Charlatan And Ultimately A Boring Man at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
>BTWN< Summer 2019
June 21, 2019
Public programming that happens between regularly scheduled shows.
SAICOBAB | Zebulon, Los Angeles
May 4, 2019
SAICOBAB is the Japanese band of vocalist YoshimiO (Boredoms, OOIOO), with Yoshida Daikiti on sitar, and Motoyuki "Hama" Hamamoto on percussion, gamelan...
Otomo Yoshihide | Zebulon, Los Angeles
May 4, 2019
Otomo Yoshihide was a pioneering figure in the Electroacoustic Improvisation scene, and today is a musician and producer – a cross-genre music maker actively performing free improvisation, noise, and pop...
Keiji Haino | Zebulon, Los Angeles
April 7, 2019
Keiji Haino is one of the key figures to emerge from the world of Japanese underground and avant-garde music in the last 50 years...
Public Programming Series | Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s
April 6 – May 4, 2019
This April & May ~ Please join us for a performance and public programming series on the occasion of PART II of PARERGON: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s, curated by Mika Yoshitake...
EYƎ | Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
April 6, 2019
EYƎ presents a special performance using a laptop, contact mic, and light sensors. This is related to his DJ style where he compiles simulated recordings (i.e. rocks falling in gorges) and music from a variety of genres...
Friedrich Kunath Book Launch Party with Performance by Destroyer | Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
January 26, 2019
Book Launch Party with A Special Performance by Destroyer. The first major monograph devoted to the sentimentally introspective and humorously existential work of Los Angeles-based artist Friedrich Kunath is now in bookstores and available online...
Destroyer | Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
January 26, 2019
Performance By Destroyer For Friedrich Kunath's Book Launch I Don't Worry Anymore
Out of the Shadows: Experimental Feminist Films by Jane Arden, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Penny Slinger | Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
January 25 – 31, 2019
Out of the Shadows showcases the exceptional motion pictures created by Jane Arden, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Penny Slinger during the 1960s and '70s. These artists share overlapping concerns in their experimental narratives, focusing on female sexuality, the occult, and societal taboos...
Chung Sang-hwa: Art Lecture with Jung-Ah Woo | Blum & Poe Los Angeles
January 7, 2019
Please join us for a public lecture on the life and work of artist Chung Sang-hwa, on the occasion of the closing of the first major exhibition in Los Angeles to focus on the artist's work...
Bread + Puppet Theater: The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus | Blum & Poe Los Angeles
November 4, 2018
Blum & Poe, in collaboration with Three Day Weekend, is pleased to announce Bread and Puppet Theater's The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus...
California Coalition For Women Prisoners 2018 Benefit Auction | Blum & Poe Los Angeles
August 18, 2018
California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), online auction house Paddle8, and Blum & Poe will partner to raise funds for the CCWP's mission to combat mass incarceration...
Penny Slinger: Out Of The Shadows | Us Film Premiere
May 2, 2018
Penny Slinger: Out Of The Shadows is the incredible, untold story of the British artist Penny Slinger and the traumatic events that led to the creation of her masterpiece, the 1977 photo-romance, An Exorcism...
In Conversation: Lynda Benglis & Helen Molesworth | Blum & Poe Los Angeles
October 28, 2017
Blum & Poe is pleased to present an exhibition by acclaimed artist Lynda Benglis. This marks her first solo presentation on the West Coast since the 2011 retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and offers a broad overview of her output and ethos across the last three decades...
Kenjirō Okazaki: Living between Diversity of Time | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
March 13, 2015
Friday Gallery Talk: Kenjirō Okazaki: Living between Diversity of Time at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
We look forward to joining @object_thing and
@mendeswooddm in presenting “At The Luss House”...
On the occasion of the two-person exhibition “Kazunori Hamana and ooido syoujou”...
