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Our annual Summer Book Sale is now live, take 30% off sitewide* today through August 31. Join us at our LA gallery on Saturday, August 22 for an in-person sale and receive additional discounts on posters, exhibition catalogues, and more.

In a recent review of Tom’s Stretch published in Frieze, Logan Lockner writes, “the genuine ambitions of ‘Tom’s Stretch’ become apparent in the breadth and dexterity of its presentation, which balances a pervasive, playful lasciviousness with keen juxtapositions between artists, visual styles and historical periods." Read more here.

The New York Times recommends Tom’s Stretch as one of the “Art Gallery Shows to See in August,” highlighting the exhibition as “a winking statement of affirmation in the face of the homophobic and anti-trans vitriol that has wended into civic discourse these days.” Read more here.

The New York Times includes Lauren Halsey’s Metropolitan Museum of Art rooftop commission The Eastside of South Central Los Angeles Hieroglyph Prototype Architecture (I) among "The 25 Sculptures That Define the Modern Age,” selected by a panel of artists and curator including Firelei Báez, Charles Gaines, Adam Pendleton, Arlene Shechet, and Ruba Katrib.Read more here. 

Galerie names Maia Cruz Palileo an "Artist to Watch," highlighting their upcoming solo exhibition at our NY gallery and a shift toward dreamlike compositions rooted in family archives, oral history, and immigration. Read more here.

 

An American Beauty: Grateful Dead 1965–1995 is reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail as “an efficient, thoughtful tribute” that ultimately transcends “the atomization and nihilism of America’s past, present, and future.” Read more here.

Ahead of his upcoming solo presentation with David Kordansky Gallery at Frieze Seoul, Chase Hall discusses how fatherhood has reshaped the direction and rhythm of his practice, and the unexpected inspiration he finds in an ancient junkheap on his Upstate New York property. Read more here.

In a recent article published by The Gay & Lesbian Review, Ignacio Darnaude writes, “Tom’s Stretch ultimately argues that Tom’s legacy lies not simply in his iconography but in the permission he gave artists to exaggerate the body, to celebrate desire without apology, and to imagine identities unconstrained by social convention.” Read more here.

Cultured Magazine highlights Tom's Stretch, a group exhibition currently on view at our LA gallery, exploring Tom of Finland's lasting impact through interviews with nine participating artists on his legacy and the role of erotic art. Read More here.