Photo by Lisa Freeman In a radical collision of high art and leather-bound taboo, a cache of never-before-seen Robert Mapplethorpe S&M photographs has surfaced in New York City, bringing with it ...

The illustrator dredged the depths of his own subconscious—and tapped into something collectively screwy in America.

Keith McNally wrote in his new memoir "I Regret Nothing" that the "incredibly rude" celebrity once reduced "a waitress to ...

Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer known for his ... a photograph of a fist up someone's ass and a photograph of carnations in a bowl,” the artist said. While Mapplethorpe did not agree ...

“Robert was ­concerned with how to make the ­photograph, and I with how to be the photograph,” she writes. Later, she describes Mapplethorpe as “the artist of my life.” Where did Patti ...

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 ...

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

As the first feature-length portrait of the American artist Robert Mapplethorpe opens in London, Olivia Marks talks to the film-makers Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey about sex, shock, and photography ...

Anti-porn protesters outside the Hamilton County Courthouse in protesting a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition. Bettmann Archive Sally Mann received the Achievement in Fine Art award during the 2022 ...