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| July 12, 2015
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Tom of Finland Foundation
Presents a:
Life Drawing Workshop
Usually held on the second Sunday of each month. Beginner? Professional?
All are welcome. Reserve your spot and bring your sketch pad! (The deadline for reservations is July 10, 2015.)
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| June 11 -
August 14, 2015
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Austere's Exhibition of Artist Rugs and Pillows Celebrates the Work of
Tom of Finland
The opening comes at an intriguing moment for Tom of Finland, when the undersung artist's hypermasculine, homoerotic imagery is being reexamined and recontextualized within the canon of 20th-century art.
From an article by Mayer Rus in
Architectural Digest
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| July 3 - August 31, 2015
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Taschen Gallery
Presents
The Flamboyant Life and Forbidden Art of George Quaintance
George Quaintance, the 1940s and '50s illustrator who set the parameters of gay art for nearly a half century-whose work will be on display with that of Bob Mizer and Tom of Finland...
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| July 4 - September 20, 2015
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Spike Island
Presents
Patrick Staff
The Foundation
The Foundation is a new film installation by Patrick Staff exploring queer intergenerational relationships negotiated through historical materials.
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| July 9, 2015
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Opening Ceremony
Presents
The Posters
The Posters brings the work of your favorite artists off of the museum walls and into your foyer...
Some argue that Tom of Finland's work helped bring gay culture to the mainstream.
From an article by Adam Lehrer in Forbes
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| July 10, 2015
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Antebellum
Presents
Black-Gay-Erotic
In Celebration of Black Pride 2015, a group show of multi-ethnic artists depicting gay black erotic.
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| July 11, 2015
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Los Angeles Band of Brothers
Presents
Rush
A Play Party for Men @ TOM House, 9:00 PM to 2:00 AM.
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| July 16, 2015
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Cock 'n' Tail Party @ TOM House
Jubilate.
A Sensational Evening Packed with Performances!
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TOM's Bar 2015
TOM's Bar, our annual celebration of Tom of Finland, was another fun success this year thanks to our volunteers, artists, sponsors, and the many friends of Foundation that joined the activities!
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Winner of the Tom of Finland Emerging Artist Competition
Felipe Meres accepts his Grand Prize, a c.1979 drawing by Tom of Finland...
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George Quaintance - The First Gay Celebrity
Right from the cover of the first issue of the first muscle magazine, Physique Pictorial, in 1950, George Quaintance was the advance guard of gay erotic art in the 1950s.
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Tom of Finland at the International Festival of Creativity
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What happens inside
the world's best homoerotic art space?
Photographer Stuart Sandford spent nine months at legendary live-in erotica Tom of Finland Foundation - and captured it on a Polaroid camera.
"I'd actually never seen so many penises in one place in my entire life." That's how photographer Stuart Sandford described his latest stay at legendary homoerotic art Tom of Finland Foundation.
From an article by Holly Jemima Doherty in Dazed
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Tom of Finland at David Kordansky Gallery
17th January - 7th March, 2015
The show's 15 early works on paper-most exhibited for the first time-serve as a profoundly dynamic historiography of postwar gay sensibilities. Their preening, posing figures reflect 30 very important years of gay life, spanning from the underground lifestyle of the 1940s to the countercultural gay liberation movement that Tom's musclemen most often represent.
From an article by Bradford Nordeen in Art in America
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Tom of Finland | Through 23 August | New York
CRITICS' PICKS
CURRENT PICK / MUST SEE
ARTISTS SPACE EXHIBITIONS
38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor
The subtitle of the Tom of Finland exhibition currently at Artists Space,
The Pleasure of Play, points to a key aspect of the artist's work: its fundamental cheerfulness. Tom, who admired the work of Paul Cadmus and Norman Rockwell alike, gave his homoerotic drawings of well-muscled men in uniform (and in various states of undress) a subtly wholesome bent.
From an article by Claire Lehmann of
Artforum International Magazine
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I'm A Cruiser: Tom of Finland's
Subcultural Smut At Artists Space
As the Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage this week, everyone on the Twitters was declaring #LoveWins. Well, maybe, but let's remember that love doesn't just win in chapels and courthouses. Love can also win in sex clubs and bathhouses, in parks and public restrooms...
From an article by Emily Colucci in
Filthy Dreams
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Tom of Finland: The Pleasure of Play
review - definitely not the marrying kind
... Gay liberty is just as important as gay equality - and liberty, especially sexual liberty, is a more powerful and dangerous idea.
I was reminded of that on my recent visits to Artists Space, which is hosting a major show of the art of Tom of Finland, a cult illustrator of ithyphallic musclemen, motorcycle fiends and leather gods. The exhibition, spanning two spaces, is the largest showcase ever of Tom's art: there are more than 180 drawings, featuring more boots than you'll find in Herm?s.
From an article by Jason Farago in
The Guardian
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The Erotic Revolution
Walking into the afternoon session on iconic gay artist Tom of Finland, it is impossible to avoid the orange glare from smartphone screens as delegates all around me check Grindr. Such is the ubiquity of gay culture in 2015 - thanks, in so small part, to TOM (aka Touko Laaksonen), who quietly inspired a global movement from his house in a cold, lonely corner of Finland.
No shame, no guilt.
From an article by Philip Ellis on
Ogilvydo
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"I think the liberated smile that his characters have is still progressive," says Stefan Kalm?r, the curator of Tom of Finland: The Pleasure of Play, a comprehensive exhibit of Laaksonen's work that opens in June at New York's Artists Space (where Kalm?r is also executive director). "It's not like party-and-play, hidden-hotel-rooms business. This is out in the open and therefore still a valuable discussion today about sexuality that's not about gay marriage."
From an article by Rich Juzwiak in Interview Magazine
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Tom of Finland Will Put Out Your Fire
No matter your sexual orientation, you'd do well to run over to Artists Space in New York for the phenomenally lewd and irreverent survey of drawings by late gay erotica icon Tom of Finland, on view through August 23. And if you, um, own a fireplace [or kitchen!], Jalo Helsinki has a treat for you!
From an article by Scott Indrisek of Blouin Artinfo
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