My how time passes when you are having a good time.  This year is the 40th Anniversary of the Tom of Finland Foundation …… which is devoted to the art of the man who knew all about good times. Thanks to the lovely people at Diesel they are celebrating this landmark with Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival 2024 – Art Speaks Through Us It will touch down in Berlin, London, and then Los Angeles from November 29 to December 1where for the first time, it is being held concurrently with CLAW’s Leather Thanksgiving  celebration.

By linking up with Claw, the Festival will be able to offer  the public more diversity in the social activities being held under one big tent at the Hotel Indigo. Events on offer include a screening of and panel about the new feature-length documentary House of Leather, Sticky Pages: Inside Stroke magazine moderated by Mark Timothy Hayward, Linda Simpson’s Drag Explosion, a reading from I Didn’t See It Coming by William E. Jones, a talk from Taschen book editor Dian Hanson on Tom of Finland, and the keynote address From The Studio by Paul Mpagi Sepuya.

For more information and ticketing, please visit tomoffinland.org/artfair.