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eNews #185
September 8, 2015
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October 2 - 4, 2015
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Tom of Finland Foundation
Presents:
Tom of Finland
Art & Culture Festival 2015
The weekend festival will showcase live performance, poetry readings, short films, and art - spanning sculpture, photography, paintings, sketches, digital renderings and more - will be for sale. |
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September 13, 2015
Los Angeles, CA
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Tom of Finland Foundation
Presents a:
Usually held on the second Sunday of each month. Beginner? Professional? All are welcome. Reserve your spot and bring your sketch pad! |
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June 13 -
September 13, 2015
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Artists Space
Presents:
Tom of Finland:
The Pleasure of Play
CLOSING SOON! The first comprehensive Tom of Finland survey exhibition in the US, to include over 120 drawings, rarely seen gouaches from the 1940s, the complete set of over 600 pages of collages from his reference binders, as well as early childhood drawings. |
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June 11 -
September 14, 2015
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Austere
Presents:
Henzel Studio Heritage: Tom of Finland
+ Henzel Studio Collaborations
CLOSING SOON!
Austere, the innovative showcase of Scandinavian design in downtown Los Angeles, hosts an exhibition of artist carpets and pillows crafted by the Swedish luxury rugmaker Henzel Studio. Witn carpet designs by Nan Goldin, Richard Phillips, and Helmut Lang, as well as Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen, 1920-1991). |
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September 23, 2015
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San Francisco Leathermen's Discussion Group
Presents:
Tom of Finland
Art Auction and Cockail Party
Join Leathermen's Discussion group for a special event: our Tom of Finland art auction and cocktail party.
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September 27, 2015
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Folsom Street Events
Presents:
Folsom Street Fair
The World's Biggest Leather Event
Tom of Finland Foundation will be there.
Look for our booth!
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Durk Dehner and Mitch O'Farrell at TOM House, 22nd August 2015 |
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TOM's Foundation and LGBT history recognized.
On the occasion of the Echo Park Historical Society quarterly meeting at TOM House Councilmember Mitch O'Farrell presented Tom of Finland Foundation and Durk Dehner with Certificates of Recognition on behalf of the City of Los Angeles.
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Artists Space Mounts Massive Retrospective
A Review in The Village Voice
TOM OF FINLAND (Touko Laaksonen, Finnish, 1920 - 1991),
Untitled, 1968, Graphite on paper, 11.63" x 8.13",
Tom of Finland Foundation Permanent Collection, © 1968 Tom of Finland Foundation
The Norman Rockwell of gay pornographers, Tom of Finland imagined utopian tableaux of Olympian fucking, a world of unbound sexual pleasure where nary a worry interrupts a cock's travels from ass to mouth and back again. In Tom's drawings, sex happens outdoors, on motorcycles, in the woods or in prison, and it happens often - so often, and with such salubrious lust (even the s/m boys are having fun), that these once-scandalous pleasures nearly come off as quotidian romps.
That "another day, another orgy" feeling suffuses Tom of Finland: The Pleasure of Play, an elegantly installed retrospective at Artists Space that surveys five decades of work by the Finnish artist, who died in 1991. These 200-odd drawings and gouaches, plus many more collaged studies, are a hat-tip to an artist who operated under the pop-culture radar even as he was by turns influenced by and influential in its image-making.
From an article by Jessica Dawson
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Drawn to Kink
An Article in Bay Area Reporter
Tom of Finland's iconic hypermasculine imagery helped to formulate
the modern gay male leather scene's look and aesthetic.
Image: Finland Foundation
To celebrate the importance of erotic art, San Francisco Leathermen's Discussion Group (LDG) is hosting a Tom of Finland Foundation Reception and Erotic Art Silent Auction on September 23, 2015 from 6:30pm to 9:30pm at the SF LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street.
Along with committee chair Graylin Thornton, co-chair Richard Bolingbroke, and a bevy of volunteers, at the heart of the event is Durk Dehner, president and cofounder of the Tom of Finland Foundation.
From an article by Race Bannon
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The Broad Museum
Opening September 20, 2015
Advance tickets for The Broad, the new contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles that will open to the public with free general admission on Sept. 20, will be available online at thebroad.org beginning Aug. 31, the museum announced. The Broad also announced its hours of operation and other visitor information.
Founded by philanthropists and longtime collectors Eli and Edythe Broad and designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler, the museum will be home to the nearly 2,000-piece Broad collection and will showcase one of the world's leading collections of masterworks of postwar and contemporary art on two floors of galleries.
"Edye and I are delighted to welcome everyone to this museum, and we are excited to share the contemporary art in our collection with the public," said Eli Broad.
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Sculptures We Do Not See, an exhibition showcasing Soviet Era art, opened last Friday at Moscow's Manege Center. The exhibition included works from participants of the LeSS group, active in parallel to conventional art of the Soviet era, including artists such as Vadim Sidur, Nikolai Silis, and Vladimir Lemport. Topics surrounding the works include religious themes-a censored subject during Russia's Soviet reign between 1922 and 1991.
Decades after creation, and the sculptures still show themselves capable of inciting controversy. "Delusional people came to the exhibition who broke several works belonging to the Manege collection, by Vadim Sidur," Yelena Karneyeva, spokesperson for the Manege Museum, told AFP. Head of the conservative religious organization God's Will, Dmitry Tsorionov-who uses the pseudonym Dmitry Enteo-confirmed he was present opening day of the exhibition when the incident took place. "We called the police," he said. "They will close the exhibition for offending believers."
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Daily Crush: Tom of Finland T-shirt
The Eckhaus Latta-designed muscle tee shows archival inspiration
from the erotic master. Photo by Peter Tomka.
The Tom of Finland Foundation has collaborated with artists and designers to satisfy a new generation of collectors with a variety of objects and apparel (including rugs, clothes, and dildos), so I was curious what might be available at Tom of Finland: The Pleasure of Play, the comprehensive Tom of Finland exhibition, through Sept. 13 at Artists Space in New York City's SoHo. Two T-shirts are available for purchase, a simple white one with a drawing and an elaborate muscle tee with that has a high-resolution printing of collaged images from his archive on both sides (an example of one the designs is pictured below).
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Bust of Rentboy.com Leads to Protests
An Article in Huffpost
Courtesy of Keith Gemerek
People gathered across from the federal courthouse in Brooklyn
on Thursday to protest the raid on Rentboy.com last week.
A crowd gathered outside the federal courthouse in Brooklyn on Thursday to protest last week's government raid on a gay escort website, a crackdown that sex workers and LGBT activists have likened to the police raids on gay bars and bathhouses of the 1970s.
Protesters demanded that prosecutors drop the charges against Jeffrey Hurant, chief executive of Rentboy.com, and six other current or former employees of the site who were arrested on Aug. 25 for allegedly promoting prostitution. Federal authorities burst into the Rentboy offices near Union Square that day, made several arrests, seized assets and took down the website.
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