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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Samuel Goldwyn Films has secured North American rights to Ondi Timoner’s biopic “Mapplethorpe,” starring Matt Smith as the ...

In the September 1989 issue of Esquire, several months after Robert Mapplethorpe's death, Joan Didion distilled the photographer's legacy into this now iconic remembrance. You can find every Esquire ...

The major thing that “Mapplethorpe” has in its favor is that the film is afraid of neither the life nor the work of the notorious photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.Documentary director Ondi Timoner ...

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 ...

In the now 25 years since Robert Mapplethorpe’s death, there have been an almost tiring number of exhibitions regrouping his series on flowers, sex, celebrities, and so on into predictable narratives.

Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s new documentary Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures offers intimate insights into the controversial photographer's life and persona. “[Mapplethorpe] was a New York ...

In 1989, during a battle over NEA funding of a show of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography called “The Perfect Moment,” US Senator Jesse Helms urged his colleagues, “Look at the pictures.” A new HBO ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jane Levere is a New York-based freelance writer covering the arts. Apr 04, 2016, 05:26pm EDT Apr 12, 2016, 09:57am EDT This ...