Smith wrote The Coral Sea in 1996 in tribute to her friend Robert Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS seven years before at age 42. She frames the artist's life as a sailor's voyage, and as Bockris ...

Here, she’s captured twice in concert feverishly reading her phantasmagoric memorial to friend and artist Robert Mapplethorpe with the accompaniment of fellow savant Kevin Shields, the reclusive ...

But more than a decade of mapping and exploration "revealed one of the largest deep-sea coral reef habitats found to date anywhere in the world," NOAA Ocean Exploration operations chief Kasey ...