| Events
& Exhibitions |
March
8, 2015
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TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION
presents:
Life Drawing Workshop
Usually held
on the second Sunday of each month. Beginner? Professional?
All are welcome. Reserve your spot before March 6!
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Los Angeles, CA |
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January
17 -
March 7, 2015
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presents:
Early Work 1944 — 1972
This exhibition
surveys the artist’s formative years across fifteen works.
FINAL DAYS!
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Los Angeles, CA |
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February
14-
March 4, 2015
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presents:
Broken Heart
We've all
had our hearts broken. Who hasn't felt heartache and loss of the
love
of our lives? This year Antebellum will celebrate the broken heart.
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Los Angeles, CA |
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| Foundation
Announcements |
Tom of Finland
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"Adult
Taste" tours at Museum Centre Vapriikki's Sealed with
a Secret: Correspondence of Tom of Finland exhibition March
14 and 27.
Special guided 30-minute
tours at 6:00 and 6:30 PM. presenting the
artist's boldests works, not usually on display. Visitors can stop
at the wine bar, before or after a tour, and view TOM literature
and a slideshow.
Adult
Taste at Museum Centre Vapriikki |
Detail from Tom of Finland, untitled,
1972, ink, gouache, and cut-and-pasted photo on paper. From the series
"TV Repair," 1972.
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A few critics'
picks from ARTFORUM.
The Tom of Finland
exhibition at the David Kordansky Gallery is reviewed
by Julia
Friedman. "Saturated by Western heroic representation
that harkens to the Vatican Laocoön sculpture, these works
shun that era’s prevailing stereotype of gay effeminacy, instead
championing prodigiously vigorous homosexuals pleasuring one another,
their expressions glib, their gaze triumphant."
Mike Kuchar's
exhibition at Francois Ghebaly Galler is reviewed
by Andrew
Beran. "Burnished bubble butts beam with unholy
light. Cut and uncut, huge, veiny cocks blossom from every angle.
Angels and gods, gladiators and cavemen, street hustlers and bodybuilders,
S-M beltings and four-way pirate fuckfests are all drawn with the
bright hues and hard lines of comic-book superheroes."
More on
TOM's
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QX
GayGaala in Helsinki.
A night of joy, laughter
and seriously under the leadership of Maria Sid wearing a Tom of
Finland dress!
More on
TOM's
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TOM House |
Finlands
Erbe
Schwuler Zeichner Tom of Finland in L.A. Touko Laaksonen war Tom
of Finland. Er zeichnete die schwule Subkultur, als sie noch verpönt
und verboten war. Ein Besuch in seinem Domizil in L.A.
Willkommen. Das Haus
in Echo Park, wo Tom of Finland wohnte (l.), kann besucht werden
— Foto: HENNING VON BERG
More on
TOM's
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| Art
News |
Oscars As Advocacy:
Pardon Petition Fueled By ‘The Imitation Game’
The story within the
story of The Weinstein Company’s Best Picture Oscar nominee The
Imitation Game is the reality that soon after Alan Turing helped
break the Nazi's Enigma Code that brought an early end to World
War II, he was convicted under the UK's anti-gay laws. His sentence
was expunged in 2013 after the law was repealed, but the awareness
brought on by the movie has helped generate a call to pardon the
estimated 49,000 men who also were sentenced.
Now a Change.org
petition calling for the pardons is headed to Prime Minister David Cameron
at 10 Downing Street by week's end, Deadline has learned. The petition,
which has generated more than 342,000 signatures including from Hollywood
heavyweights, will be delivered by Turing’s great niece Rachel Barnes
and great nephew Nevil Hunt.
More on TOM's
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Art
and Queer Culture
Richard Meyer Talks To Daily Xtra About His Book
From Picasso
to Susan Sontag to Tom of Finland.
Richard Meyer
talks to Daily Xtra about his book, co-authored with Catherine Lord.
From the illicit pencil drawings of Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen),
to Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein, Art and Queer Culture is a
well-crafted examination of queer art.
"We
wanted to use the term queer that suggested an ongoing resistance to
the norm, however the norm is defined — usually some heterosexual
norm," Meyer says.
More on TOM's
Blog
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| Parting
Glances |
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London Fashion Week
Photo by Stuart C. Wilso —
Getty Images®
Finlayson's "Fellows"
cotton fabric, printed with Tom of Finland images, is being seen where
trends are made.
Finlayson's
Tom of Finland Collection
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| Coming
In 2017
Finland Welcomes Equal Marriage
Finnish President Sauli Niinistö signed into law a
bill
that brings marriage equality to his country.
The move puts Finland in
line with its Scandinavian neighbors — all of whom have equal marriage
laws. Finland, known for its excellent education system and Tom of Finland’s
incredible gay art (incredibly NSFW), lagged behind Norway and Sweden
— which legalized equal marriage in 2009 — and Denmark,
which introduced same-sex marriage in 2012.
The bill itself has made
history, not only for allowing same-sex marriage, but for being the
first publicly-backed piece of legislation to make it into law. Finnish
citizens can request that parliament review proposals for bills with
sufficient public support — 50,000 signatures in support, and
lawmakers are obliged to review it. The same-sex marriage bill received
167,000 signatures, or three percent of Finland’s total population.
More on TOM's
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| Rufskin
X Launches
Tom of Finland Collection
Photography by ELLIOTT
BROWN JR.
The sexy underwear
brand Rufskin is launching a 15-piece collection featuring the artwork
by Touko Laaksonen (Tom of Finland's real name), with designs inspired
by his hunky characters.
For Rufskin,
it's also a way to pay tribute to its roots: Founders Hubert Pouches
and Douglas Coats say Laaksonen’s work played a significant role in
the creation their label, which was specifically inspired by his vision
of unhibited masculinity.
More on TOM's
Blog
Photography by ELLIOTT
BROWN JR.
Scenes from
the NYC event celebrating the athletic collaboration February 12, 2015.
More photos
on TOM's
Blog
TJ Wood and Pete Karjalainen at
RUFSKIN X
Tom of Finland LA Launch Event 21st February.
Los Angeles
also held the west coast launch event on February 21, 2015.
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| Tom
of Finland Curriculum Vitae
Tom of Finland by PATRICK SARFATI
Tom of Finland's (Touko Laaksonen,
Finnish, 8th May 1920 — 7th November 1991) work is in museums
such as: The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; Museum
of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles
County Museum of Art; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design;
Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland; and the Kiasma,
Helsinki, Finland.
Selected
Solo Exhibitions
Selected
Group Exhibitions
Public
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Publications
Video
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