Last night, an exhibition of work by Robert Mapplethorpe curated by Juergen Teller opened at London’s Alison Jacques gallery, gathering a throng so huge that it packed the gallery rooms and spilled ...

Obsessed with form, Robert Mapplethorpe was an exacting portraitist, still-life photographer and documentarian of the gay leather scene in 1960s and '70s New York. But to many modern viewers, he's ...

WHAT'S IN A NAME? Serena Altschul, now, with a tale of two brothers... When you hear the name Mapplethorpe, it's this man who comes to mind: Robert Mapplethorpe, a photographer whose pictures of ...

A new two-hour documentary looks at the provocative photos and life of Robert Mapplethorpe, including the ones which brought obscenity charges against Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center in 1990.

He’ll likely always be remembered a certain way, his lean frame angling sharply across a picture, black leather jacket over a torn tee, his curls flopping all over, his gaze direct. But no matter how ...

As the Maastricht fair continues to update its outlook, an emphasis on photography is bringing together “the whole range of what culture can be.” By Jillian Rayfield This month offers St. Patrick’s ...

I have given a lot of time and energy to my brother Robert and his career-while he was alive, sure, but also over the 27 years since he died. When HBO first approached me about being a part of a ...

Without classic 1960s Pop art, especially Andy Warhol’s, there would be no Robert Mapplethorpe photographs as we know them from the 1970s and 1980s. That’s the big takeaway from a visit to “Robert ...

In midst of what’s become a very big moment for the late artist Robert Mapplethorpe, who is the subject of a new HBO documentary and a joint retrospectives at Los Angeles’s Paul Getty Museum and Los ...

A new exhibition at the Guggenheim museum in New York and a forthcoming film explore Robert Mapplethorpe, the photographer behind some of the 20th century’s most brazen and beautiful images. By Laurie ...

Self-Portrait, 1980 Jointly acquired by the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; partial gift of The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation; partial purchase with funds provided by ...

Six notorious artistic controversies, from Édouard Manet’s “Olympia” to Tracey Emin’s “My Bed.” By Julia Halperin As the Maastricht fair continues to update its outlook, an emphasis on photography is ...