Artist Matt Saunders' show Neon in Daylight opens at Blum & Poe Gallery in Culver City this Saturday, April 17. It's the artist's second solo exhibition at the gallery. The show comprises a new video installation as well as some startling and beautiful works utilizing a cameraless photographic technique in which light is passed through painted linen or Mylar onto…

Los Angeles-based artist Jim Shaw's first solo show at Blum & Poe in Culver City is dominated by an 18 by 40 foot work called Mississippi River Mural, described as "an old theater backdrop layered with a frieze of figures painted in illustrative comic style in battle-ready stances." 

The gallery goes on to describe the three-decade-spanning retrospective in…

If ever you were thinking about checking in on the gallery scene in Culver City, now is the time to do it. The new show by Takashi Murakami at Blum & Poe Gallery is a must-see. The Japanese superstar artist's new pieces are massive and psychedelically detailed. As David Pagel recently said in the…

Los Angeles-based artist Dave Muller's seventh solo exhibition at the prestigious gallery Blum & Poe opens this Friday and runs through October 27. The opening reception - which is, as always, is free, open to the public, and sure to be a lot of fun - is Friday, Sept. 28, from 6 pm to 8 pm.

Here's what Blum & Poe has to say about the exhibit:…

Artist Victor Man's new show,"The White Shadow of His Talent" opens at Blum & Poe gallery in Culver City this Saturday, April 28. The opening reception is from 6 pm to 8 pm, and, as always, the event is free and open to the public.

According to the gallery's release: "With this new series of paintings and arrangements of images and…

1) Wayne White's show at Western Project in May

Wayne White -- who won three Emmys for his set and puppet design on Pee Wee's Playhouse and served as Art Director on Peter Gabriel's memorable video for "Big Time" -- brought his detailed and…

Blum & Poe gallery in Culver City will present a lecture on art and philosophy by distinguished German philosopher Marcus Steinweg this Saturday, November 19, at 6 p.m. Steinweg is renowned for his collaborations with artists, including Thomas Hirschhorn and Rosemarie Trockel. He lives in Berlin and is currently organizing a lecture series at…

Artist Chuck Close appeared at his opening at Blum & Poe Gallery in Culver City on Saturday, and he's quite the flashy dresser. His show, which will be up until December 22, features cracked portraits of the likes of Laurie Anderson and -- is that Paul Simon? There are also numerous self-portraits that mostly show him gazing somewhat doubtfully out of the…

Blum & Poe Gallery in Culver CIty will feature works by the great Chuck Close, beginning this Saturday, October 29. Featured will be new large-scale oil paintings of artists Kara Walker, Laurie Anderson, and Zhang Huan, works from Close's ongoing self-portrait series, and an intimately scaled portrait of musician Paul Simon. 

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Terry Riley, the composer of such seminal pieces of minimalism as "In C" and "Poppy Nogood" will perform at Blum & Poe Gallery in Culver CIty this Wednesday, September 14. Riley will perform with the Calder Quartet, a group based out of the based out of the Colburn School in downtown Los Angeles.

The bad news is the tickets are $100 apiece. The good news is…