This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. March 9 is the 20th anniversary of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe’s ...

These five 7.6 x 7.6 inch prints are mounted on black mounts that measure 13.25 x 12.75 inches like all the rest in the X Portfolio. The titles for these 5 images are: Robert Mapplethorpe's 1978 'X' ...

The photographer, who died in 1989, was as controversial as he was celebrated. Now, two LA museums are exhibiting their massive joint acquisition... Robert Mapplethorpe's Provocative Art Finds A New ...

“Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith: Flowers, Poetry and Light,” is the latest exhibition at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens. Curated by Dr. Carol Ockman, Selby’s curator-at-large, this show explores ...

Image: 19.25 x 19.25 in. (48.9 x 48.9 cm.) Focusing on the classical components of beauty, Mapplethorpe captured images of nudes and still lifes through a sexualized lens. The present work, Thomas, ...

While his photos of gay men brought infamy to the late Robert Mapplethorpe, his pictures of women brought fame, glamour and entree into Manhattan's most fashionable salons. In the late 1970s and '80s ...

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 ...

Art Whirled is a new series of weekly cartoons on Artnet News that poke fun at the extremely ripe target of the art world and art market. The mind behind the cartoons, Guy Richards Smit, is an artist ...

MAPPLETHORPE MOVIE/FACEBOOK | The film “Mapplethorpe” does not effectively capture the subversive nature of Robert Mapplethorpe’s work. The eponymous “Mapplethorpe” chronicles the adult life and ...

She won the first Women’s World Pro Bodybuilding Championship. But she saw herself as an artist and posed for Robert Mapplethorpe and other photographers. By Penelope Green In amassing work made by ...

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 ...