Robert Mapplethorpe

Matt Smith on ‘The Crown’ Pay-Gap Scandal: We ‘Resolved’ It

Smith explains the ‘strange’ experience of being an unexpected participant in the pay-gap conversation, and dishes on his racy new role as gay art provocateur Robert Mapplethorpe.

Kevin Fallon

BEAUTY

Sex, Strength, and Salvation in LGBT Art

New York City’s Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art has just reopened after an impressive expansion. To celebrate, it has brought previously unseen works out of storage.

Tim Teeman

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Body Politic

Robert Mapplethorpe’s Raw Gay Desire

Two great exhibitions in Los Angeles reveal the lifetime’s work of photographer Mapplethorpe—with his confrontational treatment of sexuality and male body taking center-stage.

Tim Teeman

Censored Art (PHOTOS)

William Boot

Synchronized Vision

Mapplethorpe's Artistic Twin

A new exhibit pairs the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe with the sculptures of Auguste Rodin, showing that their work and sensibility was often eerily similar, almost clone-like.

Sarah Moroz

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Vintage

Portraits of 'American Cool'

In an effort to define what is "cool," the National Portrait Gallery in D.C. has chosen 100 American icons that it thinks embodies the national concept. See a selection of them here.

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