Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. “Soulmates” seems all together too touchy-feely a word to describe the ...

Last night, an exhibition of work by Robert Mapplethorpe curated by Juergen Teller opened at London’s Alison Jacques gallery, gathering a throng so huge that it packed the gallery rooms and spilled ...

He’ll likely always be remembered a certain way, his lean frame angling sharply across a picture, black leather jacket over a torn tee, his curls flopping all over, his gaze direct. But no matter how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I have given a lot of time and energy to my brother Robert and his career-while he was alive, sure, but also over the 27 years ...

Self-Portrait, 1980 Jointly acquired by the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; partial gift of The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation; partial purchase with funds provided by ...

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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 ...

How soon we forget! Just over a quarter-century ago, an American Catholic-raised schoolboy, visual artist Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-89), sent shock waves through political and artistic circles. In his ...

NEW YORK — Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photographs of naked African American men and ritualized scenes of sexual domination and bondage scandalized some Americans in the 1980s and ’90s, died 30 years ...

In midst of what’s become a very big moment for the late artist Robert Mapplethorpe, who is the subject of a new HBO documentary and a joint retrospectives at Los Angeles’s Paul Getty Museum and Los ...

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 ...

In a new book, the author Isaac Butler details the late-20th century battles over government-funded art. By Gilbert Cruz, Sarah Diamond, Amy Pearl, Patricia Sulbarán and Tracy Mumford Six notorious ...