Robert died of AIDS in 1989. That same year, Edward kicked his drug habit. Later he would take back what was rightfully his: the name Mapplethorpe. "There are a number of pivotal points in one's ...

NEW YORK — Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photographs of naked ... When Mapplethorpe died of complications from AIDS in 1989, he was a successful artist, with commercial and art world cachet, ...

The photos and Matt Smith’s hard-edged playing of Robert Mapplethorpe ... why anyone bothered. Mapplethorpe is portrayed as a user, a glory hound, a knowing AIDS vector, and sadistic in his ...

In May 1988, ten months before he died of complications of HIV/Aids at the age of 42, the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe established the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to protect his work and to ...

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.

But I was so glad I attended that night." Robert sadly died of Aids in March 1989, aged 42. Mapplethorpe Foundation A latter-day self-portrait of Mapplethorpe aged 42, a year before his death from ...

Guggenheim Museum in New York, “Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now,” explores both the range of Robert Mapplethorpe ... he died of complications from HIV/AIDS at the age of 42.

An artist is suing the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation ... After the photo shoot, Mapplethorpe, who died of HIV/AIDS in 1989, offered to have his studio assistant develop the film, but never ...

Robert Mapplethorpe is the show’s title ... who used his art to reckon with his battle with Aids and government intolerance, was withdrawn from a show of gay and lesbian portraiture at ...

During Robert Mapplethorpe's brief time in college ... another vanilla biopic of an '80s-era queer artist who died of AIDS won Best Actor at the Oscars. For audiences sick of seeing all these ...

As it turns out, that’s how photographer Robert Mapplethorpe treated the people ... a man who died at age 42 due to complications from AIDS. Director Ondi Timoner got her start in television ...