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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Australian singer’s look was inspired by the iconic New York photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...