The Wall Street Journal profiles Blum + Poe on the pretext that they are planning outposts in Tokyo this December and New York next year. The Art Newspaper told us Tokyo was coming almost a year ago and then this June that they were shopping for a New York space:

Now, after nearly 20 years in the business, they’re planning to open a gallery in Tokyo this December and another in Manhattan in 2014. […]

The expansion into Japan and New York will enable the gallery to grow with its artists. “As we become mid-career dealers, we’re getting involved in connoisseurship and pushing our artists forward in different ways,” Poe explains. The first show at the Tokyo gallery will likely be a group exhibition of Blum & Poe’s Japanese artists, who comprise roughly 20 percent of the gallery’s stable. They also plan to introduce their American artists to Japan, among them stars like Mark Grotjahn and Tim Hawkinson. “Tokyo is one of the great cities of the world,” Blum says. “We’re hoping to provide an extra reason for people to go there.”