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eNews #291
News from TOM's Foundation
3rd March 2023
Events Highlight
Stimulating conversation served with finger sandwiches and sweeties along with hand-blended loose leaf tea.

Space is limited, so RSVP today!
Events & Exhibitions
Through 11th March
Mexico City
This is an exhibition curated by Tony Solis, photographer and editor-in-chief of Y-NOT Magazine and creator of Pequeños Bribones. With Slava Mogutin (Russia), Rubén Esparza (United States) and Stuart Sandford (United Kingdom), together with Donovan Quiroz, a Mexican photographer, and Tony Solis.
12th March
Los Angeles
We will be inside at TOM House; masks are required. Room for 15 artists only in the live session. Join in person OR online.
MODEL: Cutler X
12-3p (PST)

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12th March through 2nd April
Manchester
Friends of Dorothy are excited to present the work of Manchester creative master, Lee Baxter alongside Roman Udalov, a legendary LA-based creative, whose captivating work transports us to the mysterious plant world of East Hollywood and other Californian dreamscapes.
19th through 26th March
Los Angeles
The Kickoff Party will be held on 19th March at The Bullet Bar from 2-8p. On 24th March, The Assembly will be a formal leather/uniform dress code event starting at 7:30p at Rough Trade Gear. And finally, the Mr. Los Angeles Leather Contest will be held at The Catwalk Club on 25th March starting at 5p.
We will be outside at TOM House. Room for 10 artists only in the session.  
MODELS: Ben Reznik & Eddie Burke
1-4p (PST)

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26th March
Los Angeles
Off Sunset Festival is a playful celebration that brings together over 10,000 revelers to bask in the L.A. sunshine while venturing through the half-mile street fair venue that features live music performances, gourmet food trucks, frosty beer trailers, DJ-driven dancing, specialty food vendors, ice-cold specialty drinks, curated art, merchandise and novelty vendors.
News & Announcements
We will be drawing from live a male model in a variety classical poses and highly graphic depictions of homoerotic nudity and sex.

Come our to TOM House for an afternoon of sexy life drawing! Space is limited.
Korean fashion and lifestyle magazine Eyes Magazine features the brand new Carne Bollente x Tom of Finland collaboration.

Editor Sori Moon describes it as “sex positivity from two big names”.
This past Saturday, tens of thousands of revelers in Sydney came out to Oxford Street for the Sydney World Pride parade.

One highlight was TOM’s Man, a four meter-tall construction of a Tom of Finland drawing. Rendered in just the right shade of graphite, this parade float is the brainchild of Teresa Leggett.
Queer Germany media company Männer highlights the upcoming Art & Culture Festival in Berlin. Describing the festival location prideART, writer Michael Rädel calls it, “A wonderful place for Queer creatives to produce and also exhibit their work, and thus ensure the enjoyment of art and the visibility of the LGBTQ+ community.”
Arbiters of culture HYPEBEAST take a look at the brand new Carne Bollente x Tom Of Finland capsule collection. Writer Joyce Li notes the collection “[draws] on the satirical and humouristic parts of Tom of Finland’s work."
Esse arts + opinions, a contemporary art magazine covering a wide range of art practices, takes an extensive look at the recently-closed Tom of Finland exhibition on view at David Kordansky Gallery in New York.
FOUNDATION UPDATE
The Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival will kick off 2023 with its first iteration in Berlin. prideART at The Knast will host the event taking place 12th-14th May. We could not be more excited to bring the Festival to Germany for the very first time!
TAILPIECE
In this short video, Tom of Finland discusses how his work depicted joyful, empowered Gay men fully engulfed in their sexuality during an era when homosexuality was forbidden and even criminalized.
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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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