The photographer, who died in 1989, was as controversial as he was celebrated. Now, two LA museums are exhibiting their massive joint acquisition... Robert Mapplethorpe's Provocative Art Finds A New ...

Look, respond, discuss, repeat. At the very least, the late artist Robert Mapplethorpe’s duality-tinged, often sexually charged photography demanded a consideration of the form beyond the mere ...

In the HBO documentary about the controversial artist Robert Mapplethorpe, his older sister remembers her brother being the neighborhood’s pogo-stick champion. The story is apropos of nothing in ...

A renegade Catholic boy raised by conservative parents in Queens, New York, Robert Mapplethorpe transformed some of the most blasphemous subjects on earth — gay sex, Satanism, bondage — into beautiful ...

With a title that echoes the scalding indignation of the late Sen. Jesse Helms, HBO’s thorough documentary “Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures” does just that — it looks intently at the range of ...

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“Mapplethorpe” (2018) is the newest biopic starring Matt Smith (of “Doctor Who” fame) as Robert Mapplethorpe, an iconic photographer of the 1970s whose subjects ranged from flowers to friends to an ...

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 documentary, ...