Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met when they were teenagers ... the infamous stomping ground for New York’s famous artists, musicians and socialites on 222 West 23rd Street in ...

Photo by Lisa Freeman In a radical collision of high art and leather-bound taboo, a cache of never-before-seen Robert Mapplethorpe ... that yielded Mapplethorpe’s famous image of the couple.

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

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

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 ...