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 ...

The late artist Robert Mapplethorpe photographed flowers and celebrities, but also naked men, S&M club scenes and male genitalia, in tight close-up. If the new biopic “Mapplethorpe” presents this ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PARIS (Reuters) - A new exhibition exploring connections between beloved French sculptor August Rodin and controversial U.S. photographer Robert Mapplethorpe has brought a hint of seedy 1980s New York ...

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 ...

The frames for these pieces were designed by Mapplethorpe. In 1982, Robert Mapplethorpe captured the present image of rocker Tim Scott. With his spiky mohawk and rolled up sleeves, Scott shields his ...

NEW YORK, June 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- KIKI DE MONTPARNASSE, the luxury lingerie and sexual wellness brand made for insiders seeking a refined perspective on intimacy and sensuality, today unveils a ...