“Our position is that it is a frivolous claim,” Michael Ward Stout, president of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation’s board of directors, told artnet News in a phone conversation.

Robert Mapplethorpe. Identical self-portraits of Robert Mapplethorpe with trip cable in hand, 1974, gelatin silver print. (Copyright Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation ...

President of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, said rather admiringly. Though their chosen media were different, Mapplethorpe’s work seen here (120 photographs on loan from the Robert ...

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 ...

See About archive blog posts. Who knew there was this much work left in the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation? Monday’s announcement that LACMA and the Getty Museum together acquired over 2,000 ...

An artist is suing the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, along with several other galleries and museums, for $65 million, claiming photos he took of the controversial shutterbug have been used ...

A photographer is suing the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation and several prominent New York museums and galleries for $65 million, alleging copyright infringement over images of Mapplethorpe in drag ...

Artist Robert Mapplethorpe was as controversial ... Sponsor Message Attorney Michael Ward Stout, a board member with The Mapplethorpe Foundation, says the Getty had the best facilities to store ...

“But I realized that Robert Mapplethorpe only had his own ... The idea to work with the Mapplethorpe Foundation had been percolating for him for some time. Last June, two days after he’d ...

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.

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