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Robert Mapplethorpe

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

BARE NAKED

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 | Published Apr 24, 2018

Sex, Strength, and Salvation in LGBT Art

BEAUTY

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 | Published Mar 12, 2017

Robert Mapplethorpe’s Raw Gay Desire

Body Politic

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 | Published Jul 04, 2016

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Censored Art (PHOTOS)

William Boot | Published Feb 13, 2015

Mapplethorpe's Artistic Twin

Synchronized Vision

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 | Published Apr 08, 2014

Portraits of 'American Cool'

Vintage

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.

The Daily Beast | Published Feb 07, 2014

Beauty in Bondage

Queer Culture

Robert Mapplethorpe used old forms for forbidden content.

Blake Gopnik | Published Jan 20, 2014

Robert Mapplethorpe's L.A. Moment

Provocateur

The legendary photographer is the focus of a joint exhibition at two major Los Angeles museums.

Isabel Wilkinson | Published Nov 05, 2012

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