How soon we forget! Just over a quarter-century ago, an American Catholic-raised schoolboy, visual artist Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-89), sent shock waves through political and artistic circles. In his ...

When Bryce Dessner was 14, controversy struck his hometown when authorities shut down an exhibition at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and threw its curator in jail for a week on charges of ...

The following is an excerpt from Did You Sleep With the Models? by Sam Staggs, former editor of the gay magazines Mandate, Honcho, and Playguy. Read the book at samstaggs.substack.com Then, in 1977, ...

Shot in New York City in 19 days, starring “The Crown’s” Matt Smith in the title role and produced by Boston’s Eliza Dushku and brother Nate Dushku, documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner’s “Mapplethorpe” ...

Mapplethorpe took his first photographs using a Polaroid camera. He did not consider himself a photographer, but wished to use his own photographic images in his paintings, rather than pictures from ...

Although the fairly straightforward biopic “Mapplethorpe” may not break as much new ground as did its controversial subject — famed photographer Robert Mapplethorpe — director Ondi Timoner, who ...

More than 40 years after she first moved to the city, Patti Smith is enough of a New York icon that despite her less-than-ostentatious manner — she arrived alone at NPR's New York studios wearing a ...

Robert Mapplethorpe was born in 1946 in Queens, New York. In 1963, Mapplethorpe enrolled at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he studied drawing, painting, and sculpture. Influenced by artists such ...

He designed some of the most visually exciting magazines of the 1970s and ’80s. But his real love, and eventually his focus, was photography. By Penelope Green She won the first Women’s World Pro ...

After a successful exhibition of Pop art works by Roy Lichtenstein inspired by the garden paintings of French master Claude Monet, Selby Botanical Gardens will transform itself once again next winter ...

Robert Michael Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, ...