It’s been a big year in Helsinki’s art world. The Finnish capital is wrapping up its second Biennial and celebrating the 150th anniversary of its Design Museum. But even frequent visitors may not know ...

The new film "Tom of Finland," opening Friday at Landmark's Hillcrest Cinemas, looks to the artist whose erotic drawings influenced the fantasies of a generation of gay men. Touko Laaksonen is better ...

Tom of Finland, the Finnish artist famous for his homoerotic illustrations of hypermasculine men, died in 1991. But his legacy lives on — through his art, which adorns queer establishments around the ...

Brad Pitt has made a surprise debut as a sculptor, unveiling a set of hand-crafted works at an art museum in Finland in what appears to be his first-ever public art exhibition. Pitt, 58, unveiled the ...

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Rock paintings offered more than just visuals for some prehistoric people. A new study by five Helsinki-based researchers examines the echoes produced by rock formations with paintings dating back ...

When the very first Helsinki Biennial launched in 2021, it was a pretty local affair as the world was just emerging from the Covid 19 pandemic. So this year’s biennial, that runs until the fall, is in ...

The first retrospective of Howard Smith’s works in his home country beguilingly blurs the distinctions between art, design, and décor. Though Smith thrived as a designer in Finland, he aspired to be ...

The verdant Finnish capital celebrated for its parkland, forest, lakes and islands is set to raise its prominence in the world of contemporary art by hosting the first ever Helsinki Biennial on an ...