Serena Altschul, now, with a tale of two brothers... When you hear the name Mapplethorpe, it's this man who comes to mind: Robert Mapplethorpe, a photographer whose pictures of flowers stirred the ...

A new exhibition at the Guggenheim museum in New York and a forthcoming film explore Robert Mapplethorpe, the photographer behind some of the 20th century’s most brazen and beautiful images.

Robert Mapplethorpe, seen here in a self-portrait, became a controversial star of the art world Thirty years ago the controversial American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe had a major exhibition ...

Artist Robert Mapplethorpe was as controversial as he was celebrated. In 1989, his photographs depicting nude men and sexual fetishes helped ignite the culture wars. Now, an upcoming HBO ...

The new HBO documentary about Robert Mapplethorpe has renewed interest in the provocative art photographer who became a sensation before his early death and a flashpoint for controversy after it.

In 1970, Sandy Daley, a filmmaker who lived at the Chelsea Hotel, invited her neighbor, a young artist named Robert Mapplethorpe, to collaborate with her on a movie. The result, “Robert Gets His ...

They are supremely controlled works, and often great ones. The photos and Matt Smith’s hard-edged playing of Robert Mapplethorpe are by far the best aspects of the film, even if the lanky Smith ...

Robert Mapplethorpe. Identical self-portraits of Robert Mapplethorpe with trip cable in hand, 1974, gelatin silver print. (Copyright Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation ...

Smith recounts those years, and in particular her relationship with the provocative photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, in a new book called Just Kids. "Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out ...

By Glenn Kenny The statement Robert Mapplethorpe made with his photographs was practically self-evident. Every one of his pictures says “I think this is beautiful.” But the statement is follow ...

For several years, while working on his documentary about the iconoclastic American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, Fenton Bailey would puzzle over a quote from the artist, who died in 1989 at ...