Robert Mapplethorpe notably took the cover photograph ... However, they remained close until Mapplethorpe's last days. Smith also recalled that she promised Mapplethorpe she would "write their ...

These are the works that caused the Corcoran Gallery of Art to cancel a Mapplethorpe exhibition last ... for Robert. “Now, Richard, although we saw him about once a year for a week, 10 days ...

I first met Robert Mapplethorpe in the elevator of the Chelsea ... But for almost 10 years, I saw him every day in a decade that changed us all. Following my father's death, I had started a ...

The next day ... his last breath?’” When Robert died, Edward and Melody were informed that they had to move out of the Bond Street loft. Robert’s studio now belonged to the Mapplethorpe ...

Artist Robert Mapplethorpe found himself ... accompanied by warning signs of their explicit content. Mapplethorpe himself, this is his last self-portrait, died of AIDS, at age 42, just before ...

Last month, the Los Angeles ... which ran in The Washington Post the next day. On the eve of what was to have been the opening of “Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment,” more than 900 ...

A few days apart in mid-March, the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) will open their joint retrospective, “Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium.” ...

One day she was holding a stuffed black crow ... and a vibrant profile of Smith’s onetime boyfriend and lifelong muse, Robert Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS in 1989. At age 63, Smith in person ...