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.

Last night, an exhibition of work by Robert Mapplethorpe curated by Juergen ... boyfriend,” enters the room and rushes to hug Teller, congratulating him on the show. He should know, as in ...

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 ...

Artist Robert Mapplethorpe was as controversial as he was celebrated. In 1989, his photographs depicting nude men and sexual fetishes helped ignite the culture wars. Now, an upcoming HBO ...

They are supremely controlled works, and often great ones. The photos and Matt Smith’s hard-edged playing of Robert Mapplethorpe are by far the best aspects of the film, even if the lanky Smith ...

During Robert Mapplethorpe's brief time in college, he kept a pet monkey named Scratch. But the famed photographer quickly lost interest in the creature, according to his biographer Patricia ...

By Glenn Kenny The statement Robert Mapplethorpe made with his photographs was practically self-evident. Every one of his pictures says “I think this is beautiful.” But the statement is follow ...

Robert Mapplethorpe, seen here in a self-portrait, became a controversial star of the art world Thirty years ago the controversial American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe had a major exhibition ...

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.

This is how director Ondi Timoner’s “Mapplethorpe” manages to accomplish the unimaginable: It makes Robert Mapplethorpe dull. The iconoclastic photographer died of AIDS in 1989, leaving ...

A new show at Arthur Roger Gallery provides an unprecedented opportunity to compare work by George Dureau and Robert Mapplethorpe, two of the most important figurative photographers of the 20th ...