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Tips Of The Hat And Odds & Ends:

Bård Ydén from Oslo. Wes Hurley from Seattle

Fresh from from Outfest, Bård Ydén and Wes Hurley, visit TOM House. You can visit TOM House, too! The House has three floors of artwork on display, Foundation headquarters, plus Tom's studio. On a nice day, enjoy the lush Pleasure Park outdoors. As the House is also a residence, please call us at 213.250.1685 to make an appointment. TOM House has been a major highlight of out-of-town visitors' trips as well as local Angelenos' jaunts.

Three new ToFF Lifetime Members in two zero one three. Special thanks to Richard Hawkins, John L. Morace and Mark F. Lindfield. Memberships are available at seven levels of participation.

One Sexy Fest – Off Sunset Festival Thanks to all the hard work and brilliant organizers. More pix on TOM's Blog.

It is an overwhelming experience to enter the installation of forty-eight tightly cropped portrait paintings of transgender men and women that makes up Katie Herzog’s solo exhibition Transtextuality (SB 48).

Herzog brings together her painting practice and training in library and information science to reimagine Richter’s gesture in the wake of California’s Senate Bill 48, which passed in 2011, requiring social studies curricula to include LGBT figures. Her visual archive of mostly living trans leaders, from Susan Stryker to Lana Wachowski (and many lesser-knowns in between), provides a welcome education.

For the feat of Herzog’s deeply humanistic project is to demonstrate that these transgendered men and women, above all, identify with their intellectual achievements.

— Complete article by Natilee Harren on ArtForum

Night Gallery
2276 East 16th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90021 · Map · 323 589 1079
Night Gallery Website

Despite its title, and with the exception of Jared Buckhiester’s watercolor typology of half-naked football players and one magisterially constructed, transparently explicit Tom of Finland sketch, none of the work in this taut summer grouping of obsessive drawing and collage is particularly concerned with evasion or desire—except insofar as anything can be an evasion, and everything, once you’re looking for it, is desire.

— Complete article by Will Heinrich on GalleristNY

Feature Inc.
Summer Hours: June 13 - August 2, Tuesday - Saturday 12 - 6 PM
131 Allen Street, New York, NY 10002 · MAP · 212.675.7772
Feature Inc. Website

Keep Your Timber Limber
London Evening Standard Exhibition Review

TOM OF FINLAND

From the Forties, Touko Laaksonen, known as Tom of Finland, created his images of the sexual exploits of musclebound uniform-clad men as fantasies for himself but what began as personal porn became celebrated in the gay community and more widely because they showed what Laaksonen described as “proud men having happy sex”.

— Complete article by Ben Luke on London Evening Standard

Institute of Contemporary Arts
Open Tuesday to Sunday 11:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Eshibitions are open 11:00 AM - 11:00 PM except Thursday 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Closed Mondays
The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH · Map · 020.7930.3647
Institute of Contemporary Arts Website · Exhibition Page

The Benefits Of Pencil Hard-ons
Exhibition: Tom of Finland: Preliminary Drawings

TOM OF FINLAND

There is little to say of the content – veiny, glutear, wild – which hasn’t been written already, although the delicacy of these preliminary pieces is truly remarkable; the carefulness and the softness is surprising, and delightful in its incongruity. If you feel as though you’d benefit from some close-quarters scrutiny of beautifully rendered pencil hard-ons, it runs until August 10th.

— Complete article by Philippa Snow for ARTslant on TOM's Blog

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TOM's "001 Rebel"

Tom of Finland –
Life and Work of a Gay Hero

“I spent every day in a hectic office trying to create something unique for an ad; then the evenings and the weekends I spent drawing my private fantasies. Sometimes I’d work the whole night through and complete two or three drawings.”

— Tom of Finland

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