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Los Angeles, CA
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Lumberjacked & Eagle LA and
Tom of Finland Foundation
present
#TomOfFinlandDay
Kickoff
Toast Tom! Eat Cake! Free Stuff!
Big. Nasty. Rude. Go-Go Jacks!
All Night Beer Bust. Sexy Tunes.
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World Wide
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Tom of Finland Foundation
presents
#TomOfFinlandDay
Wherever you are. Raise your glasses.
Celebrate Tom's Birthday.
Throw a happening. Gather together. Invite all your friends. Hook up.
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Los Angeles, CA
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Tom of Finland Foundation
presents
Inside <> Outside:
Suzanne Shifflett,
Rowland Byass
An exhibition of two artists in two spaces at TOM House. Opening reception Sunday, May 7th at 4:00 PM.
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Los Angeles, CA
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Tom of Finland Foundation
presents a
Life Drawing Session
Each month the Foundation offers a friendly and positive environment to practice your skills.
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Through
31st May, 2017
New York, NY
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Tanja Grunert Gallery &
Equator Productions & Henzel Studio
present
The Carpet Kartell
Tanja Grunert Gallery is pleased to announce the inaugural exhibition of The Carpet Kartell, a newly founded association for manufacturers that develop artist designed carpets.
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Through
3rd June, 2017
Los Angeles, CA
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Jason Vass
presents
Mark Dutcher:
Another World
Dutcher's paintings occupy an original space between abstraction and representation: autobiography plays an important role in his paintings which, more universally, also allude to themes derived from literature, poetry in particular.
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Los Angeles, CA
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Antebellum
presents
Wednesday Tea Salons
At TOM House
Hand-blended tea, cakes and sweets, relax and have a nice cuppa tea...
View kinky/sexy art. chat with fellow kinksters and art patrons. Remove yourself from reality, and chill.
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Durk at Galerie Judin
Durk Dehner, president of Tom of Finland Foundation, views one of the portraits Tom did of him at Galerie Judin in Berlin.
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ToFF at Tribeca
Sharp and Durk Dehner (foreground) with writer Mark Brown, Joakim Andreasson, d
irector Dome Karukoski (far right)
and cast members Seumas F. Sargent, Pekka Strang, Jessica Grabowsky at the American premiere of the
Tom of Finland
movie.
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Durk Inducted by CLAW
Cleveland Leather Annual Weekend (CLAW) has inducted Durk Dehner into their International Leather Hall of Fame.
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Durk Receives Leather-to-Leather Award
At the Mr. Leather LA VIP reception, Durk Dehner (center) of Tom of Finland Foundation receives the Leather-to-Leather Award presented by Dan Parente of Team Eagle NYC (right) and Jon Wright (left) of Los Angeles.
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Tom of Finland Movie
Picked Up in Multiple Territories
An article in
Variety
"Dome Karukoski's biopic
Tom of Finland, which had its international premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival last weekend, has sold in several key markets, Protagonist Pictures CEO Mike Goodridge revealed Tuesday.
"U.K. rights for the film, about the life and work of Finnish artist and gay icon Touko Laaksonen, have been acquired by Peccadillo Pictures in a deal negotiated between Protagonist's international sales manager George Hamilton and Peccadillo managing director Tom Abell.
"Other territories sold include Australia (Palace Films), Spain (Festival Films), France (Rezo Films), Germany (Pandastorm), Scandinavia (Non Stop), Portugal (Cinemundo), Taiwan (Cineplex), Baltics (Estin Films), Czech Republic (ACFK), Korea (Rainbow Factory), and Poland (Tongariro), with HBO acquiring pay-TV rights for Central and Eastern Europe. It was recently announced that Kino Lorber has acquired the film for North America."
by Leo Barraclough
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Why Queer Art is Relevant
An article by Michael Kirwan
"It might seem somewhat self-serving for me to try to make the case for homoerotic art produced within the Gay community (as opposed to the corporate marketing of barely clad sports figures and whatnot). Then again, who is in a better position to address the issue than someone like me who has made a living in this particular field for over twenty years?
"So if my assessment/argument seems tiresomely biased... well, just take that into account if you feel the need to respond, correct or refute my basic premise."
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Happy Hour x Tom of Finland Skateboard Decks
From an article in
OUT
The collaboration aims to support diversity in skateboarding.
"When you travel the world and meet skateboarders you soon realize the two Finns people know are skateboarder Arto Saari and Tom of Finland," said Happy Hour founder and owner, Jarkko Poropudas. "This collaboration is our tribute to a legendary artist. In addition to the bigger picture of gay rights, we want to do our part in supporting diversity within skateboarding."
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Tom of Finland: From Gay Icon
to Mainstream Sensation
From an article on NBC News
"In the beginning, he drew them simply for his own pleasure. But in the nearly eight decades since Tom of Finland began creating them as a young man, his boldly erotic and hyper-masculine illustrations have grown evermore popular, and proven astoundingly enduring.
"Long iconic and even formative for American gay society, Tom's well-endowed and sexually charged imagery is now hitting the global mainstream, and it's resonating with new and surprising audiences - like women, transgender men and even art connoisseurs in China - along the way, even as it finally turns the artist himself into a household name in his native Finland."
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Jamison Karon's Sex Life Is Art
From an article in
Advocate
"Among the brawny and muscled California beauties, there is one sharp brunet who is building a body of radical, sex-positive work. Jamison Karon completed his erotic memoir,
How to be a Faggot, during his summer 2016 stint in residence at the Tom of Finland Foundation. The collection of nonfiction stories is a sexy and telling account of the young writer's sexual experiences, integrated with poetry and social commentary."
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Durk Dehner is Interviewed
by Jamison Karon
and Photographed by
Paul Mpagi Sepuya
An Article in Issue #6 of Gayletter
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