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eNews #265
News from TOM's Foundation
7th October 2021
Events & Exhibitions
Opens 9th October
Los Angeles, CA
With 28 large-scale wheat paste posters installed in a public site, this exhibit stages a visual dialogue between historical and contemporary LGBTQ+ changemakers. 
Drawing artwork on artwork. Tattoos and all. We will be drawing from live models in a variety of classical poses and graphic depictions of homo-eroticism. Online only.
15th and 16th October
Los Angeles, CA
Welcome to Pleasure Park, Exposed, a two-night dinner event that explores Queer history, deviance and rampant *feasting* through the lens of cruising.
28th - 31st October
Palm Springs, CA
All your favorite events will be back, including the Mr. Palm Springs Leather 2021 Contest, the Formal Leather Dinner, our world famous Clothing-Optional Pool Parties at Canyon Club, a hosted Cigar Social and more!
Through 6th November
Boston, MA
The exhibition spans the arc of Queer history, from taboo, to revolutionary, to accepted and celebrated, featuring works by contemporary LGBTQ+ artists alongside their historical antecedents.
Through 14th November
Barcelona, Spain
One aspect of the history of sailing that is most commonly shrouded in silence is the sexuality of the men who spent days, months and even years aboard ships, confined to very small spaces where privacy was almost non-existent.
24th - 28th November
Los Angeles, CA
CLAW is the annual conference for gay men that is dedicated to fundraising, education, volunteerism and other charitable needs of the leather community.
5th - 6th December
Los Angeles, CA
The Tom of Finland Foundation Art & Culture Festival is returning once again. This year we bring you Tom of Finland 101: Raw Anatomy.
News & Announcements
We are saddened to let you know that our shining star Lyndell has now left us on 1st October 2021. Her light made everyone around her shine. She will be deeply missed.
One of Los Angeles’s top galleries will soon open an outpost in New York. Next spring, David Kordansky Gallery will inaugurate a new location on West 20th Street in Chelsea. This marks Kordansky’s first expansion outside L.A.
Miguel Angel Reyes is a Los Angeles – based portrait and figurative painter, muralist, printmaker and illustrator. Miguel incorporates expressionist brushwork and a saturated palette in celebration of the classic Latin tradition.
Our Artist-in-Resident, Jacob Love, recently was awarded first place in The Concord Art Prize with his three-channel audio-visual installation, created in response to Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “My Favorite Things”.
"While the Arrow's and Teen Wolf's Colton Haynes looks great wolfed out in front of the camera (he’s set to appear in the new, recently-announced Teen Wolf movie on Paramount+ alongside his old co-star Tyler Posey), we have to say we prefer it when he’s sporting leather rather than fur." -Out
Foundation is excited to open our Artist-in-Residence program up once again next year. As a part of the Artist-in-Residence program you will get to stay at TOM House; gain access to our archives; and work on a project to be presented at the end of your stay.
Eagle LA has been serving L.A.’s Leather/BDSM Community since 2006. It has always been their mission to uphold the Leather/Uniform/Fetish traditions set forth by the infamous Eagle name and that traditions still holds true today. Find out how you can get this special fine art print.
Durk Dehner, cofounder of Tom of Finland Foundation, a close friend, partner and manager of Tom of Finland, talks about the artist’s work. Curator Antti Kauppinen talks about the MSC Finland – Tom’s Club 45th anniversary exhibition.
These new Board members joined the existing six Directors in a planning the future direction of the Foundation, while confronting the challenges all nonprofit organizations face in the current environment.
In Tom’s universe, all men are created equal, and are equal to fuck or be fucked. There is no point in using the term intercourse; Tom would only find it demeaning. His men were basic and unpretentious, following their manly instincts and enjoying every minute of it.
FOUNDATION UPDATES
TOM’s Kake, just as Kake himself, goes deeper into the mix. In addition to the benefits of TOM’s Kake, you also get a personalized House Tour with Durk, which can be here in Los Angeles or conducted virtually.
TAILPIECE
As we always have, we continue to create public programming that protects, preserves, and promotes erotic art, broadening our global scope by becoming more online.

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