A new exhibition at the Guggenheim museum in New York and a forthcoming film explore Robert Mapplethorpe, the photographer behind some of the 20th century’s most brazen and beautiful images.

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, died 30 ...

In the now 25 years since Robert Mapplethorpe’s death, there have been an almost tiring number of exhibitions regrouping his series on flowers, sex, celebrities, and so on into predictable ...

Late 20th-century artist and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe will be featured in a new two-venue exhibition, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium at the J. Paul Getty and LACMA Museums in ...

This week when the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s joint exhibition “Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium” is running at both venues, an extraordinary ...

Robert Mapplethorpe was one of the most ... The show, titled “6.13.89: The Cancelling of the Mapplethorpe Exhibition,” features several fateful documents from the Corcoran among the artifacts ...

In mid-’80s Manhattan, at a show of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs and collages, I followed a slightly stooping, elderly lady into the packed gallery. This was Mapplethorpe in excelsis, surfing the ...

Two great exhibitions in Los Angeles reveal the ... phallic flowers, and hot bodies Robert Mapplethorpe fans could wish for are present at the two retrospectives of his work at Los Angeles ...

The exhibition marks a new direction for the ... and the author of the monograph Dans la vie noire et blanche de Robert Mapplethorpe, out this month. “We chose Mapplethorpe’s most sculptural ...

Last night, an exhibition of work by Robert Mapplethorpe curated by Juergen Teller opened at London’s Alison Jacques gallery, gathering a throng so huge that it packed the gallery rooms and ...

Late 20th-century artist and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe will be featured in a new two-venue exhibition, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium at the J. Paul Getty and LACMA Museums in ...