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 ...

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Senior Editor and Writer Of course, all the throbbing penises, phallic flowers, and hot bodies Robert Mapplethorpe ... were dying of HIV and AIDS—when the gay male ...

Mapplethorpe died at 42 from AIDS-related complications in 1989, the year the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., refused to show a retrospective of his work, “Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

aids was out there by then ... Naturally, the first thing they brought to mind was Robert Mapplethorpe’s famous and iconic photograph of … the American flag. “I wasn’t ready,” he ...

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 ...

It makes Robert Mapplethorpe dull. The iconoclastic photographer died of AIDS in 1989, leaving behind a raging controversy regarding an eight-city tour of his exhibit “Robert Mapplethorpe ...

along with Peter Hujar and Robert Mapplethorpe, one of the masters of black-and-white portraiture. A memorial to a small fraction of the thousands of New Yorkers who died of H.I.V./AIDS-related ...