In 1970, Sandy Daley, a filmmaker who lived at the Chelsea Hotel, invited her neighbor, a young artist named Robert Mapplethorpe ... to the artist Mapplethorpe would become: a color-pencil ...

Robert Mapplethorpe ... and formats to his oeuvre: color polaroids, photogravure, platinum prints on paper and linen, cibachomes and dye transfer color prints, as well as his earlier black-and-white ...

LOS ANGELES — The remarkable two-museum show Robert Mapplethorpe ... exotic or richly imbued with color (as a label at the Getty explained, most of the floral photos were first processed ...

An artist is suing the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, along with several other galleries and museums, for $65 million, claiming photos he took of the controversial shutterbug have been used ...

In June of 1989, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., elected to cancel “The Perfect Moment,” a retrospective on American artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Mapplethorpe, who had died ...

"Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made," said American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe ... section "Sacred and Profane," photos showing Mapplethorpe's ambivalent ...

In Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter, 1979, two leather-clad men, one sitting and shackled to another standing, pose as if for a prom photo. Mapplethorpe could also poke fun at himself. In Self ...

I first met Robert Mapplethorpe in the elevator of the Chelsea ... waiting for the car service to bring me to my next photo shoot, looking forward to getting my hair curled and my undershirts ...

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"Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made," said American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe ... section "Sacred and Profane," photos showing Mapplethorpe's ambivalent ...