In a coming together which will excite many, Juergen Teller is curating an exhibition of work by the legendary photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, which will go on view at London’s Alison Jacques ...

Fashion designer and former Christian Dior creative director Raf Simons has a long history of collaborating with artists. In 2009 he began an ongoing collaboration with the painter Sterling Ruby, and ...

A new show at Arthur Roger Gallery provides an unprecedented opportunity to compare work by George Dureau and Robert Mapplethorpe, two of the most important figurative photographers of the 20th ...

Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer known for his black-and-white portraits and for documenting New York’s S&M scene. He was concerned with Classical aspects of beauty, whether in his ...

Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer known for his black-and-white portraits and for documenting New York’s S&M scene. He was concerned with Classical aspects of beauty, whether in his ...

The late American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe first gained international attention due to his now infamous exhibition, The Perfect Moment (1988–90), which was initially held at the Corcoran ...

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 ...

Aren’t biopics terrible? The sidewinding arcs, tangents and strings of unrelated events that comprise a lifetime’s experience are terribly suited for the compact storytelling demands of a conventional ...

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 ...

"I'm an artist. I would've been a painter but the camera was invented." That's how Robert Mapplethorpe describes himself in Mapplethorpe, a biopic following the life of the provocative photographer ...