Former restaurateur Keith McNally has recalled Patti Smith and her former partner, Robert Mapplethorpe's alleged behavior towards the restaurant staff in the 70s.

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met when they were teenagers ... Mapplethorpe died in 1989 of AIDS in Boston. Born in 1946 in Chicago and raised in New Jersey, Smith would go on to become ...

African Daisy, 1982 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Mapplethorpe Flora: The Complete Flowers, Phaidon Calla Lily, 1988 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation ...

Photo by Lisa Freeman In a radical collision of high art and leather-bound taboo, a cache of never-before-seen Robert ... by Lisa Freeman Mapplethorpe’s career, cut short by AIDS in 1989 at ...

president of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, which was established by the artist a year before his death from AIDS in 1989. “He left a very big inventory of work, and there was a thriving ...

Punk poet Patti Smith once wrote, “We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another,” in reference to her relationship with the late artist Robert Mapplethorpe ...