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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Matt Smith stars as the celebrated photographer in this new movie about his life. Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met when they were teenagers and would later go on to live, work and love ...