"When I talked to some of my friends in New York, they said: Oh my god, Robert Mapplethorpe is a New York artist, the legacy should be in New York," recalls Govan. "And one of the cases I made ...

For someone as in love with the human face as Robert Mapplethorpe ... as much as now — denounced Mapplethorpe on the floor of the Senate. “Look at the pictures!” Helms thundered. That phrase, forever ...

A U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this week made gay marriage ... the Kinsey Institute’s art collection, “and one of them out of about 25 had heard of Robert Mapplethorpe.

Robert Mapplethorpe is now widely known as one of a pair of artists ... a purchased urinal that Duchamp signed and placed on exhibitohad revealed to the art world that art can be made from mundane, ...

In fact, Robert had gone to a preeminent art schoolPratt Instituteand ... observer might point out that Mapplethorpe has been called a master manipulator. He made a point of befriending people ...

When you hear the name Mapplethorpe, it's this man who comes to mind: Robert Mapplethorpe ... when we had lunch and he was very angry. And he made it quite clear that he wasn't going to be ...

The result, “Robert Gets His Nipple Pierced ... a color-pencil drawing that Mapplethorpe made on graph paper while an art student at Pratt hardly seems a precursor to the works that would ...

"When I talked to some of my friends in New York, they said: Oh my god, Robert Mapplethorpe is a New York artist, the legacy should be in New York," recalls Govan. "And one of the cases I made ...

Robert Mapplethorpe's Provocative Art Finds A New Home In LA Artist Robert ... And like his frenemy Andy Warhol, Mapplethorpe did fashion shoots and made portraits of patrons and socialites.