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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

to Robert’s legacy,” said younger brother Edward Mapplethorpe at a recent preview of the exhibitions at the Los Angeles museums. “Robert said that he’s a perfectionist. … Look at how ...

In a coming together which will excite many, Juergen Teller is curating an exhibition of work by the legendary photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, which will go on view at London’s Alison Jacques ...

Robert Mapplethorpe was a key figure in that fracas, which peaked when Washington’s Corcoran Gallery of Art backed out of a touring exhibition of the American photographer’s works, and police ...

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 ...