An Australian exclusive exhibition of images by Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) will be on display at the 2025 Ballarat ...

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Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer known for his black-and-white portraits and for documenting New York’s S&M scene. He was concerned with Classical aspects of beauty, whether in his ...

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Crump directed the feature-length documentary film Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff + Robert Mapplethorpe, which premiered in North America at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival and in ...

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Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer known for his black-and-white portraits and for documenting New York’s S&M scene. He was concerned with Classical aspects of beauty, whether in his ...

A few years later, North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms was among those angered by NEA grants to artists such as photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and performance artist Karen Finley and demanded the ...

Scott Suchman/The Washington Post, via Getty Images Famous people — Tom Stoppard, Oliver Sachs, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe — waft in and out, as does the English playwright Alan Bennett ...