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eNews #187
October 21, 2015
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October 24, 2015
Los Angeles, CA
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Faultline Bar
Presents:
TOM's Garage
Full Service Pit Stop
MEN -- MEAT -- MUSIC -- MOVIES -- MAYHEM
With DJ Victor Rodriguez
Everything You Need!
Benefits TOM's Foundation
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October 29 -
November 1, 2015
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Palm Springs Leather Order of the Desert
Presents:
Desert Leather Pride 2015
It's the annual Mr. Palm Springs Leather Contest which means a long weekend jam packed with parties and events. The women of Palm Springs Leather Order of the Desert will be attending.
FInd out more about Tom of Finland Foundation this weekend!
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November 8, 2015
Los Angeles, CA
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Tom of Finland Foundation
Presents a:
Usually held on the second Sunday of each month. Beginner? Professional? All are welcome. Reserve your spot and bring your sketch pad!
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October 25, 2015
Los Angeles, CA
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Marc Streit and Lucas Beyeler
Present:
Share a spectacular afternoon with DJ Stanley Frank Sensation. Hosted by Sarah Problem, and performances by VivvyAnne ForeverMORE and Daniel Hellman.
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October 24 -
December 12, 2015
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Richard Telles Fine Art
& Jenny's
Present:
Richard Hawkins
New Work
Richard Hawkins draws upon aspects of visual culture that indulge in the pleasures and taboos of looking at the human body. In his work, the body frequently happens to be young, male, and exotic.
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October 30 -
December 1, 2015
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Homotopia
Presents:
Art = Life
Homotopia 2015 Line-up Revealed
A packed program of art and culture reflecting the LGBT experience will form the basis of Liverpool's Homotopia festival this year.
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October 24, 2015
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Obscura Society LA
Presents:
Tom of Finland
A Special Tour of TOM House
Discover the historic home and museum of Tom of Finland, the world's largest collection of homoerotic art, TOM House.
During our tour of the house, we'll view selections from the archive of Tom's and others' work, relax in the garden of delight, and explore the dark corners of the
dungeon.
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October 24, 2015
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Commonwealth & Council
Presents:
F?!
F?! addresses the topic of failure and proposes alternatives to our conventional understanding and pursuit of success-opening new perspectives in the creative capital.
One-day screenings, performances, installations, and lecture.
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2015 Art & Cultural Festival Catch a video of the Fest! |
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Such a pleasure to thank the following for making the Festival so amazing...
Applause to All of Our Artists, Sponsors and Volunteers
Bravo to All Our Supporters, Patrons and Visitors
Kudos to Our Performers, Poets and Filmmakers
Ovations to Our Award and Competition Recipients
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2015 Art & Cultural Festival
Catch more of the Fest!
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Miss the Festival? Want to visit it again? Now you can through the magic of video!
Thank you to Ad Schuring for his installation and superb documentation of the Festival.
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Two samples of very homo-erotic poetry readings. |
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Real ear-openers: speaking of the
Festival, this year we were treated to poets sharing their words for the edification and entertainment of us all.
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Image from Born to Raise Hell |
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A couple of hellraisers also got their rewards at this year's Festival. They started the very early Queer porn S&M film revolution.
Their first project was banned in California (and many other states) for using real Los Angeles police cars, motorbikes and true official uniformed LAPD officers, doing quite different things than what they are known for, in their landmark project
Born to Raise Hell.
Meet Tom of Finland Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award winners Terry Le Grand and Roger Earl.
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Competition Winners 2014 - 2015 |
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Starting the Festival was a luncheon for Tom of Finland Emerging Artists. First run in 1993, the Competition aims to cultivate the next generation of artists who are producing erotic artwork.
See more photos of the luncheon and a video of Foundation President Durk Dehner speaking to the group.
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Photos by #dtxphotos |
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Foundation attended this year's Folsom Street Fair -- the world's biggest leather event -- where there's always a lot to see and do.
Would you believe a bed in the middle of Folsom? We did it. Take a look!
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Photos by #dtxphotos |
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Thank you San Francisco! We were taken by your support and generosity.
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Master Curation: How to Find Queer Hints in Art
An article in Advocate
A queer sensibility can be found in London's National Portrait Gallery.
You just need to know where - and how - to look.
London's Trafalgar Square is famous for its profusion of pigeons, Nelson's Column (don't get excited - it's a statue of an 18th-century British naval commander perched on a high plinth), and great British art. It's home to the National Gallery, which houses the nation's painting collection, and the National Portrait Gallery. Well, technically speaking, the portrait gallery isn't exactly on the square; its entrance is around the corner on St. Martin's Place.
There's something appropriate about this not-quite-prime placement. Portrait galleries are to art what pub quizzes are to information: They reward trivia over deep knowledge, identification over appreciation. In a portrait gallery, the goal is not to marvel at the artist's skill in evoking his or her subject but, rather, to recognize the sitter. Whenever I'm wandering around one, I'm mentally keeping tabs on how many of the famous faces hanging on the walls I know, the way I might tot up the number of questions I get right on an episode of Jeopardy!.
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Why Harry Bush Was an Artist at War
He discarded numerous friends, argued with an endless parade of publishers,
and criticized the patrons who coveted his work.
But more than anyone else, Bush was at war with himself.
Harry Bush was a homosexual who drew male nudes throughout the 1970s and '80s for hardcore magazines but wanted nothing to do with gay people in particular. And although his work rarely deviates from the archetypal youths awakening to their primal urges at the very moment they reach physical perfection, the man drawing those images was a frail and aging hermit who kept an oxygen tank not far from his ever-present pack of cigarettes.
Bush has been described over the years as a talented bundle of contradictions barely covered by skin. Even as his work became more pointed and popular, Harry obsessed that if his fixation on the Boy Next Door ever got back to his relatives, they'd conspire to strip him of his government pension and lock him up in an old age home to die. Even so, and despite knowing that most of his colleagues worked under pseudonyms, Harry Bush signed everything he ever drew with his own name.
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Tomorrow's Man 3
Four different covers from which to choose. Also in a limited hardcover edition of 75
which includes an original, signed and numbered, photograph by Pierson.
The third volume of Pierson's ground-breaking
Tomorrow's Man book series, in which the artist has assembled an art-fueled creative collaboration that harkens back to the 13 volumes of the independent literary and art periodical
The Yellow Book published between 1894-1897.
This volumes amplifies the work of four artists. Richard Tinkler's delicate geometric abstractions are highlighted, working in concert with Pierson's recent series of figure studies; activist text works by Peter Fend that cry outfor environmental justice; and a short story by Veralyn Behenna entitled
The Flavor of Your Wish in which an expatriate woman contemplates masculine beauty in a Grecian taverna. This is the first time
Tomorrow's Man has included previously unpublished work by Pierson.
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Tom of Finland
TOM OF FINLAND (Touko Laaksonen, Finnish, 1920 - 1991),
Untitled, 1977, Graphite on paper, 17.50" x 21.25",
© 1977 Tom of Finland Foundation
Tom of Finland is all about inclusion; his cast of characters, from Kake to Tom's Men, are icons of gay representation. His work also reminds me quite a lot of American art from the early-to-mid-twentieth century, art that belongs to a vaguely delimited but unmistakable tradition that includes Paul Cadmus and Norman Rockwell and certain Charles Demuths, as well as Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood-regionalism.
It's American Gothic like you never imagined it -- well, actually, I did.
From an article
by David Rimanelli, Contributing Editor
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Launch of Tom's Pleasure Tools
At Pleasure Chest, Los Angeles, CA, November 12, 2015
TOM OF FINLAND (Touko Laaksonen, Finnish, 1920 - 1991),
Untitled (From Kake vol. 23 - "Kake in the Wild West"), 1982,
Graphite on paper, © 1982 Tom of Finland Foundation
Join Tom of Finland Foundation's Durk Dehner and S.R. Sharp for an interactive evening including a provocative and engaging discussion on the history of TOM's Foundation, which serves as a living archive that fosters the erotic arts around the world, and the intricate process of bringing Tom of Finland's work to life as functional art.
Attendees will have the opportunity to preview and purchase the full line of Tom of Finland Pleasure Tools and other Tom of Finland lifestyle items exclusively available at Pleasure Chest. Plus, take photos in the Tom of Finland spanking booth and win prizes.
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