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 ...

Robert Mapplethorpe was born in 1946 in Queens, New York. In 1963, Mapplethorpe enrolled at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he studied drawing, painting, and sculpture. Influenced by artists such ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...