Robert Mapplethorpe
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Serious at a time when there were a lot of people doing very lively work like Annie Leibovitz and even on the opposite pole Robert Mapplethorpe. Her pictures were very still.
Wojnarowicz is one of my all-time favorite artists; he’s the reason I became an artist myself ... There’s a whole new generation of queer artists who don’t even know who he is … or Robert Mapplethorpe, even. So to have them here … And to look at Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, to have it uncovered that they had this relationship, and through art also, is huge. It’s like lifting a veil placed over art history.
I became the focus of media attention ... It was during the time of the NEA Four, Andres Serrano, and Robert Mapplethorpe.More quotes »
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'The Most Beautiful Work of All': Patti Smith's Letter to a Dying Robert Mapplethorpe...
In 1967, 20-year-old Patti Smith moved to New York and met her “soul mate,” Robert Mapplethorpe — a then-aspiring and since-celebrated photographer who quickly become her lover. They lived and worked together for the next 7 years. 22 years later, by whic 9:13 AM from The Daily Swarm Read more »
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Patti Smith photos at DIA
Detroit looms large in Patti Smith's cosmology. The influential rock musician, poet and artist moved here with her husband, guitarist Fred (Sonic) Smith in 1979, settling in St. Clair Shores. Their children were born here, and it was here, in the wake of 2:16 AM from Detroit Free Press Read more »
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Arts news
The National Galleries of Scotland has announced that The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation has made a major donation to the new photography gallery in the recently refurbished Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. The foundation is giving a tota from Herald Scotland Read more »
