Volume 349 | 10th June 2025

 

eNews #349

News from TOM's Foundation

10th June 2025

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Working from a rare surviving proof preserved in the artist’s collection, Tom of Finland Foundation and Dropshop collaborated with Los Angeles-based master printshop Cirrus Editions to enlarge and transfer the image to new lithographic plates, allowing the previously unreleased image to be reproduced.


Hunting will be sold as a time-limited edition available for purchase from 17th June until the drop closes on 1st July.


The Drop will benefit the Foundation’s variety of arts programs, including its Artist-in-Residence Program.

Announcements

Where did the rainbows go this Pride Month?

Rolling Stone, Vogue, and nss G-Club have all named our Pride capsule with Diesel as a sight for sore eyes amongst a sea of brands entirely abandoning their Pride campaigns or releasing merchandise as an afterthought. Highlighted is Diesel x Tom of Finland as a collection that goes to a "prominent and worthwhile cause".  

Finland’s presidential couple to serve as Helsinki Pride Week patrons this year

Finnish President Alexander Stubb and his spouse Suzanne Innes-Stubb will serve as the patrons of Helsinki Pride Week this year. The Week’s events will culminate with its annual parade in the capital’s downtown on Saturday 28th June, an event drawing tens of thousands of participants and spectators.

Events

A Summer with Tom: Before the Men

Opening 15th June

Fire Island Pines, New York

This landmark show features 15 original preparatory drawings by Tom of Finland—works never before exhibited. These works thrum with fantasy, vulnerability, and the raw energy of Queer becoming—before the myth, before the men, before the icon.

Drawing Session

15th June

Los Angeles

A relaxed setting to hone your skills. We will be outside at TOM House (weather permitting). Room for 18 artists only in the live session. Music will be played while the model is posing. Reserve your spot early for a discount.

MODELS: RJ Aguiar and JustJtay

TOM OF FINLAND

Through 14th June

Berlin

Twenty-five masterpieces by Tom of Finland, an icon of the Gay movement, of fashion and fetish, of art history, and of pop culture in particular. Tom’s powerful, handsome, proud Gay men established a new prototype of physical and mental, almost unattainable, perfection.

Tom of Finland x Kordansky at Art Basel

16th-22nd June 

Basel, Switzerland

Tom of Finland works will be featured at Art Basel with David Kordansky Gallery. "This selection of works highlights the intergenerational scope of our program, featuring both leading contemporary voices and influential historical figures."

Richard Villani and Shai Ohayon present: It's so Gay!

19th June

Basel, Switzerland

A charity night for Tom of Finland Foundation in collaboration with Swiss fashion designer Julian Zigerli! Held at Rouine, the hottest club in Basel. Goes from 3p until close. Art, games, music, performances, and more!

Tom of Finland Foundation is dedicated to the preservation of LGBTQ+ art, erotica, culture, creativity, history, heritage, memories, legacies, and communities. It preserves us, our struggles, successes, and existence. 


These values also enliven, inspire, and embolden us to express ourselves and our Queerness through drawing, painting, sculpting, collaging, building, designing, singing, screaming, crying, persevering. 


We preserve to persevere. 


Help us continue our legacy by donating to Tom of Finland Foundation today.

Check your Membership Card to see if it is time to renew. Perhaps it's time to JOIN? With upcoming members-only programming in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Palm Springs, and New York, now is the perfect time!

Events and posts on our website with this icon offer galleries, podcasts, videos, Zoom talks, and other electronically accessed media. 

As we always have, we continue to create public programming that protects, preserves, and promotes erotic art, broadening our global scope by offering more online.
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