In 1970, Sandy Daley, a filmmaker who lived at the Chelsea Hotel, invited her neighbor, a young artist named Robert Mapplethorpe, to collaborate with her on a movie. The result, “Robert Gets His ...

Robert Mapplethorpe, “Self-Portrait” (1980), gelatin silver print, 13 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches. Promised gift of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to the J. Paul ...

Mapplethorpe, a rancid attempt to legitimize the life and work of maddeningly controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe—whose relentless canvases of naked men specializing in Satanism, torture, ...

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 ...

Robert Mapplethorpe, “Self Portrait” (1980), gelatin silver print, 35.6 x 35.6 cm (image courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York © Robert Mapplethorpe ...

Robert Mapplethorpe shot flowers, children, celebs (Warhol, Capote, the young Arnold Schwarzenegger) and himself in high-contrast black-and-white that commanded attention. But what made him infamous ...

Mapplethorpe, for example, was the subject of a high-profile documentary as recently as 2016 — while Dureau’s death in 2014 did not even merit an obituary in The New York Times. And any comparison ...

One of this summer’s blockbuster exhibitions has just opened at the Art Gallery of New South Wales — Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect medium. There is no shortage of ways to feel old, but for someone ...

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 ...