The artist, a master of black and white long accused of obscenity and perversion, also known for his relationship with Patti ...

How soon we forget! Just over a quarter-century ago, an American Catholic-raised schoolboy, visual artist Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-89), sent shock waves through political and artistic circles. In his ...

Paul Strand (1890–1976) is cited as one of the leading American photographers who helped solidify photography’s standing as an art form in the 20th century. A student of seminal documentary ...

Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California (solo) Robert Mapplethorpe, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California (solo) Robert Mapplethorpe, ...

Think “Robert Mapplethorpe” and whatever words come to your head will almost assuredly not match Mapplethorpe, a new movie starring erstwhile Doctor Who and The Crown star Matt Smith as the ...

American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe would have been thrilled to be the toast of Paris Fashion Week with the opening of an exhibition on his work at the Thaddaeus Ropac gallery on Saturday. “It ...

NEW YORK — Thirty years after Robert Mapplethorpe’s death, the legend still obscures the photographs. His demise at 42 from AIDS, during the height of the American epidemic, gave a tabloid stamp to ...

The following is an excerpt from Did You Sleep With the Models? by Sam Staggs, former editor of the gay magazines Mandate, Honcho, and Playguy. Read the book at samstaggs.substack.com Then, in 1977, ...

Inside the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition that sparked a First Amendment showdown in Cincinnati. We're sorry, but something went wrong while fetching your podcast ...

He designed some of the most visually exciting magazines of the 1970s and ’80s. But his real love, and eventually his focus, was photography. By Penelope Green She won the first Women’s World Pro ...