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London art fags might want to plan a visit to Trafalgar Square tomorrow morning for the unveiling of Elmgreen & Dragset's Fourth Plinth commission. They sent a sneak peek of the ginormous golden boy as he was being assembled in an East End bronze foundry.

As a kind of coda to last week's chat with Larusson & Pyszczek, here's a drawing from Tom of Finland's 'Circus'. It was one in a series of comic books with the well-drawn Pekka (his other adventures included 'The Loggers', 'The Rope' and 'Sex in the Shed'). These two — 'Ladies and Gentlemen! The Flying Fuckers!' — were the centerfold.

Not long after they hooked up, Travis Larusson (31) and Przemek Pyszczek (26) began making art. They went on a series of ‘non-dates', like to Home Depot where they made out in the parking lot and bought wood, and to Value Village. They picked up a Super 8 camera, used it to make short films of themselves jerking off to the Tom of Finland page in In Touch magazine. But they quickly outgrew Winnipeg's smalltown attitude, and fled to Berlin in 2010. In a Kreuzberg studio, they've been crafting a body of work (portraits, drawings and oil paintings) that use those found Tom of Finland drawings as their primary source of inspiration.

Oh Apollo! Oh Asklepius, god of healing! This statuette, an anatomical effigy of an afflicted ass, sits safely behind glass at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, just a few blocks from the turmoil of demonstrations near the Greek Parliment.

BUTT loves figurative art. Especially Czech sculptress Irena Sedlecka's bronze statue — made at the height of her powers — of Freddie Mercury at Wembley Stadium during Queen's Live Aid show in 1985. The statue, which is almost 10 feet tall, is seen here looking out on Lake Geneva. Artist Aleksandra Mir would like to see him back in the UK and has created a proposal, 'Freddie on the Plinth', to bring him back.

Next Tuesday, 14 February it's your chance to fall in love with a stranger at Club Butt Valentine's Day at legendary go-go bar Escuelita in New York City. BUTT's thrilled to present the New York debut of homo rap duo Freaky Boiz. John Holland (of Salem fame in BUTT 25) and NYC's own Physical Therapy are also popping by for a little deejay action.

This weekend Longiano, Italy had its largest snowfall in twenty-seven years. Accused of being a prude by his boyfriend Davide, Michelangelo acted on a dare and made this drop-your-pants shot in the midst of subzero temperatures.

All month BUTT is dedicating itself to the most artsy fartsy art fags in the known homo-universe. These two fists belong to British artist Carl Hopgood.

BUTT's in Berlin all week, sniffing around for interesting homos and faggy stuff. We start by taking a stroll down the Buttmannstrasse (cross street Badstrasse) in the Wedding neighborhood of Berlin. You never know who you might run into...

This weekend, 28-year-old Mexican artist Fernando Madera exhibits a selection of naturist drawings in ‘Precious Paperworks and Dirty Little Drawings’ at Galerie Mooiman in Groningen, The Netherlands. Fernando sent some sketches from one of his daytrips to a nudist swimming hole near the German-Holland border.

It recently came to our attention that homosexuals in the Kingdom of Bahrain are being cockblocked — or in this case, buttblocked — by the country's internet authority.

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — ‘Why don't we just go back to my apartment and take some E?’ Ken suggested. At Ken's apartment, Scott went to the kitchen and brought out some herbal E packets, and we each took one. We went into the living room, and Scott and Ken sat down next to each other on the sofa while I sat on a chair facing them. They began to kiss. I considered the situation in front of me...

Even in January 22-year-old Pierre-Ange from Paris will wear his denim cutoffs around the house because they just feel so good. 'Is it so gay to dance to Wham in the middle of winter while wearing denim cutoffs?' he asks.

Ruben, a gay activist slash artist in Milan, took this photo from the window of his flat over Christmas. Instead of spending it with his Spanish boyfriend — the BF caught Ruben sex-hunting on Gayromeo — they were separated over the holidays. Ruben's the kind of guy who sees cocks in the most unlikely places...

Persistent Andrés has been sending us photos of his ass since last fall. This one stuck for some reason. Maybe it's the way the horizontal shadows — we adore shadows — curve around the contours of his fuzzy asscheeks. Andrés is a young playwright based in London and New York.

Readers in Sydney, Australia will want to check out a freshly-hung exhibition of photos by BUTT contributor Samuel Hodge this Wednesday, 11 January at Alaska Projects.

This fetishistic footballer drawing comes courtesy of Paul in Berlin. He made it while at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, which is, according to Paul, a liberal pocket in the not-so-liberal country of Austria. There he spent the last few years under the guidance of nurturing mentor Matthias Herrmann. Paul aspires to make art which is just as queer. This particular drawing is from a series of drawings he made of some of his studio mates who posed in jockstraps, sport socks, and other athletic kit.

Happy New Year! 25-year-old Parisian Alexandre works in a library and met photographer Cyril on Facebook. Here he is seen in the city's business district, La Défense. The photos are part of a story Cyril wanted to tell 'in an erotic landscape'.

To round off BUTT's monthlong (okay, lifelong) obsession with cruising, we caught up with Paul Knight, who has spent the past year photographing London’s decommissioned public toilets. He also has a keen interest in the ones that are still functioning, as they’re the perfect place in which to have a quickie. Last week, Oskar and Paul headed out for a stroll around some of the city's many closed privies.

Spend an afternoon with Alexandre, Arthur, Benjamin, Raphael and Thomas along the Canal St Denis on the outskirts of Paris where being nude in public is seemingly no problem whatsoever. Photographer Cyril studied architecture and is interested in the boundary between private and public — what can be seen and what should not be.