It’s a sure sign of an artist’s impact — at least for those with the privilege of tasting success during their lifetimes — that wealthy patrons will pay enormous sums to have their portraits done. At ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A renegade Catholic boy raised by conservative parents in Queens, New York, Robert Mapplethorpe transformed some of the most ...

There are two things that make the flawed “Mapplethorpe” worth a watch: Matt Smith’s dedicated performance, and a reverent inclusion of so much of the artist’s work. Despite a slightly shaky Queens ...

WHAT'S IN A NAME? Serena Altschul, now, with a tale of two brothers... When you hear the name Mapplethorpe, it's this man who comes to mind: Robert Mapplethorpe, a photographer whose pictures of ...

Hand-picked portraits of curiosity, alarm, and self-possession take form in photographs of infants in Edward Mapplethorpe’s new book, “One: Sons & Daughters”—including that of the photographer’s own ...

During Robert Mapplethorpe's brief time in college, he kept a pet monkey named Scratch. But the famed photographer quickly lost interest in the creature, according to his biographer Patricia Morrisroe ...

In a small, dimly lit room on the second floor of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Ahmanson Building, deceptive pieces of art entrance viewers. Though at first glance the displayed photographs ...

Ondi Timoner’s biopic of the provocative photographer, whose work helped kick off the culture war, received terrible reviews but gets a stunning trailer. “I would’ve been a painter, but the camera was ...

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. By Laurie ...

The major retrospective of Robert Mapplethorpe’s work that the J. Paul Getty Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art promised four years ago when they jointly acquired some 2,000 images by the New ...

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 ...

In his life and especially in the stories told of his life, Robert Mapplethorpe has represented a multitude of identities and meanings. He created elegant photographs of flowers and celebrities and ...