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L.A. fairs itself
26th March 2024, 1:02 pm
At Frieze, Felix, and around town
Michael Lucid, Brontez Purnell, and Abel Martinez hit the bar at Tom of Finland Foundation.
At Tom of Finland Foundation, National Book Award-winner Justin Torres read with Brontez Purnell outside of the craftsman Echo Park home where Tom of Finland lived and worked, and owned by partner Durk Dehner. Frieze higher-ups showed face inside, posing for photos with Durk, who was clad in head-to-toe leather. Attendant for the reading were Semiotext(e) editor Hedi El Kholti; curator Rubén Esparza; painter Amanda Kirkhuff; Shirley Morales; sometime drag queen and multi-decade viral hitmaker Michael Lucid with boo Abel Martinez; and a gaggle of punky queers, who reeled as Brontez read his memoir-in-verse, Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt. The multihyphenate had to stop reading to shout at guests carrying on in the kitchen above us. “I just wanted to see if they’d listen,” Brontez turned back to us. “What we used to call poor parenting,” he continued, “is now called neurodivergence.”
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Published: 26th March 2024
Tags: Abel Martinez, Amanda Kirkhuff, An Afternoon at TOM House, Artforum, Bradford Nordeen, Brontez Purnell, Durk Dehner, Felix art fair, Frieze LA, Hedi El Kholti, Justin Torres, Michael Lucid, Rubén Esparza, Shirley Morales, TOM House, Tom of Finland Foundation