Adrian Searle’s best art shows of 2024 – “Beryl Cook / Tom of Finland”

Studio Voltaire, London

This unlikely pairing of self-taught Plymouth-based national treasure, who painted her everyday surroundings, and a Finnish illustrator of muscle-bound hunks bulging in their biker leathers, was a collision made in some sort of heaven. Cook accompanied her pneumatic subjects to the boozer and down the caff, dancing and carousing on girls’ nights out, while Tom of Finland cruised a fantasy world of man-on-man horseplay and wild alfresco sex. Blimey.

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Published: 30th December 2024

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