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 ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An architect-designer in southern Finland has returned to a frozen lake with a snow shovel to draw a large animal on the ice for the sixth year in a row, creating an artwork ...

Researchers at Finland's Astuvansalmi rock art site are uncovering previously hidden prehistoric paintings using cutting-edge hyperspectral imaging and artificial intelligence. The discovery promises ...

The Tom of Finland Foundation brought its Art and Culture festival to London last week for the second time, ahead of its Los Angeles iteration in October at the Soho Warehouse and following a Berlin ...

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 ...

HELSINKI — Hollywood’s Brad Pitt and Australian musician Nick Cave have debuted as artists in an exhibition in Finland that displays sculptures and ceramics created by the movie star and the ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES -- The late Finnish artist Touko Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland, produced thousands of illustrations featuring men wearing tight or partially removed clothing. His work has ...

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 ...

Finnish customs officials have impounded artworks valued by insurance at over €42 million ($46 million), preventing them from returning to Russia, under European Union sanctions imposed in response to ...

Fashion designer Timoteo Ocampo flips through drawings in an attic room high above Sunset Boulevard where homoerotic artist Tom of Finland lived and worked in his final decade. “I love this look, very ...