They are supremely controlled works, and often great ones. The photos and Matt Smith’s hard-edged playing of Robert Mapplethorpe ... Unrated (graphic nudity and acts, photographic and otherwise).

“I don’t like so much talking about the work,” said Robert Mapplethorpe ... have found his most graphic images when the senator led his campaign of censorship, Mapplethorpe’s photographs ...

Mapplethorpe, who had died earlier that year in March of AIDS-related complications, was notorious for his photographic work that combined sleek formal sensibilities with graphic explorations of ...

“Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith ... that doesn’t ignore the artists themselves. Smith and Mapplethorpe’s work was highly personal. To understand it, you need to know who they were ...

Robert Mapplethorpe approached ... homosexual eroticism of some of the work of his middle period triggered a general controversy concerning the public funding of artworks. Born and raised in New York, ...

about Robert Mapplethorpe, the openly gay Queens-born photographer who shocked the world with his graphic gay S&M pictures before he died of AIDS in 1989. His former lover and confessor Jack ...

‘Sweet’ is not a word used often to describe Robert Mapplethorpe ... He has co-curated Fashion Show, a new exhibition of Mapplethorpe’s work at the Alison Jacques Gallery in central London.

Demonstrators express support for The Perfect Moment, an exhibition by Robert Mapplethrope that included nude and sexually graphic photos ... plan to exhibit Mapplethorpe’s work.

"Eroticism and sensuality are celebrated in the works of Robert Mapplethorpe. He worked at the crossroads of intimacy and was never one to shy away from personal expression and freedom. The ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I was first introduced to Robert Mapplethorpe’s work by the stylist Simon Fox, who spotted me on the ...