In 2011, the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University received 30 prints from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. The set includes some of the more challenging images for which the photographer is ...

It was only when Wagstaff began his relationship with unknown photographer Robert Mapplethorpe that he started ... Photographs from the Collection of Sam Wagstaff at the Corcoran Gallery of ...

“Sam Wagstaff was considered a great photography collector,” Holly Solomon observes in Patricia Morrisroe’s 1975 biography Mapplethorpe. “I wouldn’t have touched Robert without Sam.

I first met Robert Mapplethorpe in the elevator of the ... Robert and his longtime lover and patron, Sam Wagstaff, were staples at the Orange Tree, a small Ukrainian restaurant on Houston Street ...

A sour, undernourished biopic, “Mapplethorpe” is a disappointment just shy of a disaster — a portrait of a boundary-destroying artist that stays well within the safe borders of convention.

One assumes this is Philip Gefter's way of introducing Sam Wagstaff, a lesser-known personality in the art world, by association with the better-known Robert Mapplethorpe, a controversial ...

Sam Wagstaff knew there was something special about Robert Mapplethorpe the moment he set eyes on him. "Who is that?" he asked, pointing to a small photo-booth picture lying on a friend's table.