Robert Mapplethorpe

The Early Mapplethorpe?

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Symbolist, Andres Serrano, Homoerotic, F. Holland Day, Video, Decadence, Homosexual, Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Jesus, Alfred Stieglitz, Surrealism, Slideexpand, Gender, Arts News

Today many, if not most, artist-photographers incorporate issues of theater, sexuality and the constructed self into their work. From Cindy Sherman's ...

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Art Treasures, Yours for the Asking

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: The Getty Center, Titian, Edouard Manet, Robert Mapplethorpe, LA Museums, LA Art Scene, La Art, LA Art Exhibitions, Arts News
Edward Goldman

As a rule, museums put on display only the best, only the crème de la crème of their collections, which counts for roughly 5 percent of everything that they have in storage. But what about the other 95 percent?

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Incredible Portraits Of Cultural Icons

Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Steve Jobs, Photography, South Africa, Video, Celebrity Photography, Jodi Foster, Robert Mapplethorpe, Slideexpand, Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith, Ray Charles, Norman Seeff, Portrait, Blondie, Arts News

Norman Seeff is a South African rock photographer known for capturing the grit and glamor of the world's most creative minds, though he didn't start o...

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Rotimi Fani-Kayode Has Nothing To Lose

Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Photography, Rotimi Fani-Kayode Nothing to Lose, Homosexuality, Slidewide, Walther Collection, Walther Collection Nothing to Lose, Robert Mapplethorpe, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Black Artists, Aids, Rotimi Fani-Kayode Photography, Homoeroticism, Autograph Abp, Arts News

The artist Rotimi Fani-Kayode created striking photographs in color and black-and-white exploring race and sexuality. Tribal and baroque, the complex ...

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Experience "L.A. Style"

Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: La Art, Elizabeth Taylor, Fashion Photography, Dalai Lama, Herb Ritts Getty, La Style Herb Ritts, La Icon, Vogue, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pop Art, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Herb Ritts, Madonna, Cindy Crawford, Slidepollajax, Arts News

Fashion photographer Herb Ritts captured so much of the glitz and glamour that epitomizes that L.A. image-centric air. The skin, the sun, the models, ...

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Why Artists Aren't Rock Stars

Kristen Hotham Carroll | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Celebrity Culture, Artists, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Visual Art, Celebrities, Arts News
Kristen Hotham Carroll

Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Robert Mapplethorpe are all names I remember hearing as I was growing up. I would be hard pressed to find a 12-year-old who could name a living artist today.

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Patti Smith Turns 65!

Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Just Kids, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith: Dream of Life, Patti Smith Group, Robert Maplethorpe Just Kids, Fifty News

Patti Smith may be turning 65 on December 30, but for someone who spent nearly two decades of a 35-year career in music in retirement, she seems to be...

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Mapplethorpe Flowers 2012

Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Flowers, Photography, Flower Compositions, Flower Portraits, Flower Poster Calendar 2012, Holiday Gifts, Robert Mapplethorpe, Arts News
Evelyne Politanoff

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Patti Smith's Peaceable Kingdom

Dorothy Spears | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Arthur Rimbaud, Virginia Woolf, Rimbaud Museum, Tolstoy, Hermann Hesse, Patti Smith: Camera Solo, Monk's House, Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Bloomsbury, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hermann Hesse Museum, Photography, Arts News
Dorothy Spears

For the opening of her exhibit, Patti Smith: Camera Solo at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT last week, Patti Smith gave a concert celebrating essential connections between art, music, and literature.

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Artists Resist Facebook's Nudity Censorship Policies

Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Fotografiska Museum, Facebook Nudity, Nudity, Facebook, Steven Assael, Nude Art Censorship, Fotografiska, Robert Mapplethorpe, New York Academy of Art, Facebook Art Censorship, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Censorship, Sweden, Art Censorship, Arts News

Facebook has had its fair share of user controversy since its inception, but the debate over its oft-discussed censorship policy has taken an interest...

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Top 10 Persecuted Artists

TIME | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Caravaggio, Persecuted Artists, Illegal Art, Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei, Paul Klee, Charlie Chaplin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Artists, Owen Maseko, Ai Weiwei, Political Art, Persecution, Arts News

On Sunday, artist Ai Weiwei -- best known for helping design the "Bird's Nest" Olympic stadium in Beijing -- was detained by Chinese authorities as pa...

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Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe: Brainiac Amours in Just Kids

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dylan, Rimbaud, Gotham Book Mart, Verlaine, Allen Ginsberg, Brainiac Amour, Janis Joplin, 1970?S, National Book Award, Entertainment News, Robert Mapplethorpe, Chelsea Hotel, Book News, Birdland, Redondo Beach, Lenny Kaye, Poetry News, Horses, William Burroughs, Patti Smith, New York City, Poetry, The Doors, Publishing, Just Kids, Arts, Memoir, Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones, Genet, Elegie, Cbgb?S, Marvelettes, Gloria, Kimberly, Ecco Books, Harper Collins, Entertainment News
Holly Cara Price

Only two pages in and I'm choked with sobs as I read how Patti Smith listened to her soul mate's breathing on the phone as he struggled in the hospita...

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Welcome to a Big, Small, Strange World of Art

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art. Artists, Lacma, Metropolis II, Npr, Kcrw, Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Urban Light, Edward Goldman, Nicolas Berggruen, Chris Burden, Robert Mapplethorpe, The Getty Trust, Art Talk, Antwerp, Beam Drop, Middleheimmuseum, Arts News
Edward Goldman

It's not often that one can find art-related news on the front page of American newspapers. BUt Robert Mapplethorpe's name is once again front-page news -- and this time, it's good news.

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Transgender Artists Help Make Transformative Art

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Jack Byrne, Hemaphrodite, Lgbt, Rebecca Swan, Felicity Huffman, Tanwarin Sukkhapisit, Rita Hayworth, Transamerica, Maria Callas, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Kirsty MacDonald, Nelson Mandela, Zackie Achmat, Maori, Frederic Delius, Ema Lyon, National Film Board of Thailand, Gertrude Stein, David Wall, Simon Knoli, Assume Nothing, Robert Mapplethorpe, Prodigal Sons, Fig Trees, Four Saints in Three Acts, Drag King, Orson Welles, Drag Queen, Fennimore and Gerda, Tim McCaskell, Virgil Thomsen, John Greyson, Shigeyuki Kihara, Die Tote Stadt, Insects in the Back Yard, Gugu Diamini, Eric Wolfgang Korngold, Peter Sellars, New York City Opera, Transgender, AIDS Activism, Mani Bruce Mitchell, Kimberly Reed, St. Theresa of Avila, Oja Kodar, Stephen Lewis, Arts News
George Heymont

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You Know It's the 80's When... Highlights From Phillips de Pury's 80s Auction

Damaris Colhoun | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Andy Warhol, NYC Arts, Phillips De Pury, Art Sales, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pop Art, 1980's, Arts News
Damaris Colhoun

A curated tour of Phillip de Pury's forthcoming auction, simply called 80s, finds some images that help coin the style, the mood, and the values of an era.

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WATCH: 'I Like My Award'

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Video, Patti Smith, Patti Smith Just Kids, Punk Rock, Robert Mapplethorpe, Just Kids, Stephen Colbert Patti Smith, Just Kids Robert Mapplethorpe, Literary Prizes, Books News

Stephen Colbert told Patti Smith last night on his show: "Some have said you're the mother of the punk rock world. That must be a difficult family to ...

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Hide/Seek and Don't Ask Don't Tell

Alison Teal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gay Studies, Harlem, Romaine Brooks, Washinton D.C, Berkeley Art Museum, Thomas Eakins, Smithsonian, Sean Penn, Robert Rauschenberg Artist, Gay Art, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Andy Warhol, Photographers, Lesbian Art, National Portrait Galley, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ellen Degeneres, David C Ward, Camouflage Self Portraits, Walt Whitman, Corcoran-Gallery-of-Art, Jasper Johns, Carl Van Vechten, Jonathan Katz, Gay Issues, Annie Leibovitz, Arts News
Alison Teal

In today's Washington, we find ourselves looking to the Portrait Gallery for leadership, not our elected officials.

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Patti Smith's 'Just Kids' Won The National Book Award

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Patti Smith, Nba Winner, Poll, Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith Memoir, Nba 2010, Memoir, Just Kids, National Book Awards, Literary Prizes, Books News

Patti Smith was a National Book Award Winner for 2010. Everybody loved her acceptance speech, but does everybody love the book? Opinions in favor seem...

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EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT: 'In The Company Of Alice Neel' At Victoria Miro Gallery

Marina Cashdan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chantal Joffe, Marlene Dumas, Alice Neel, Hernan Bas, Boscoe Holder, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jacco Olivier, Elizabeth Peyton, Karen Kilimnik, Victoria Miro Gallery, Ns Harsha, Whitechapel Gallery, Idris Khan, John Currin, Slideshow, Arts News
Marina Cashdan

"In the Company of Alice" review from ARTINFO Victoria Miro, London http://www.victoria-miro.com/ Through July 30, 2010 "In the Company of Alice Nee...

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Art or Advertising?

Jeremiah Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, Deitch-Gallery, The Bowery, Advertising, Robert Mapplethorpe, Soho, Tony Goldman, Shepard Fairey Houston Street, Andres-Serrano, Piss Christ, New York City Art, Shepard Fairey, Gentrification, New York News
Jeremiah Moss

The people have expressed their opinion of the Shepard Fairey mural on Houston Street in New York by throwing rocks through it. The City is expressing its with violation notices.

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Patti Smith In Chicago: Music Legend Discusses Her New Book, Robert Mapplethorpe

HuffPost Eyes&Ears Local | Marilyn Soltis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harold Washington Library, Patti Smith in Chicago, Just Kids, Chicago Public Library, Patti Smith, Music History, Robert Mapplethorpe, Eyes and Ears, Slideshow, Chicago News

Chicago native and "grandmother of punk rock" Patti Smith spoke at the Harold Washington Library Sunday about her new book "Just Kids," a memoir of he...

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Catty on a Hot Tin Roof

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jorge Luis Borges, Augusten Burroughs, James Merrill, John Ashberry, Edmund White, Jasper Johns, Robert Mapplethorpe, City Boy, David Sedaris, Books News
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

Edmund White's City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960's and 70's reveals an unabashedly ambitious artist coming to terms with free love and gay liberation. It could be called Gay Sex in the City.

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