Today would mark beloved photographer Robert Mapplethorpe‘s 69th birthday, and in celebration, Sean Kelly Gallery will open “Unique,” a carefully-curated exhibition of his Polaroids from ...

Today would have been Robert Mapplethorpe’s 68th birthday. Like all revered cultural figures that are no longer with us, there seems to be a frantic and constant search to find out more about ...

NEW YORK — Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photographs of naked African American men and ritualized scenes of sexual domination and bondage scandalized some Americans in the 1980s and ’90s ...

She’s now a grandmother. And when she noted that her grandson Frederick was born on Mapplethorpe’s birthday, Nov. 4, she couldn’t help smiling.

Robert Mapplethorpe was a photographer of many hats ... in recognition of what would have been Mapplethorpe's 70th birthday. Though sexually explicit imagery abounds, the leather-bound characters ...

“You don’t have a crush on Robert Mapplethorpe, do you ... for his “Gold-on-Gold” birthday party, which would be attended by Princess Margaret and Mick Jagger, among others.

Fearless and provocative, Robert Mapplethorpe is best known for his frank photos from New York’s vibrant and diverse gay scene. To mark what would have been his 70th birthday, a new exhibition ...

For several years, while working on his documentary about the iconoclastic American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, Fenton Bailey would puzzle over a quote from the artist, who died in 1989 at ...