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Robert Mapplethorpe

February 2024

  • Feathers and fur … Aira.

    ‘Bodacious!’ A thrilling new take on Robert Mapplethorpe, by ex-Vogue editor Edward Enninful

    He shook up the world of fashion. For his next move, the sartorial supremo wants to change how we view the explosively provocative photographer. Edward Enninful reveals all about his first show

December 2023

  • Sudden Shower below the Summit by Katsushika Hokusai, about 1831. From The Printmaker’s Art: Rembrandt to Rego at the National, Edinburgh.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Volcanic prints, Mapplethorpe’s mates and Puerto Rico’s Palestinians – the week in art

    The history of 500 years of print from Picasso to Emin, Robert Mapplethorpe’s portraits of his famous friends, and the Palestinian diaspora in Puerto Rico

November 2023

  • Lisa Lyon and Robert Mapplethorpe, 1982 Silver Gelatin Print 50.8 x 40.6 cm (16 x 20 in) Courtesy: Alison Jacques, Used by permission

    Robert Mapplethorpe: Subject Object Image review – penises, perfection and Patti Smith

    This being Mapplethorpe, phallic imagery is in abundance – but do we really need a room of dull celebrity portraits?

October 2021

  • Patti Smith during a performance in Paris in October 2021.

    ‘We have to fight for what is right’: Patti Smith on gender, Sally Rooney and Cop26

    In the run-up to the climate conference, the rock’n’roll poet reflects – with a little help from her daughter – on a life spent breaking barriers, hanging out with Dylan and learning to Instagram

September 2020

  • Patti Smith.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Patti Smith: 'I feel the unrest of the world in the pit of my stomach'

    The singer on solitude, lifelong friend Sam Shepard, and her latest memoir

December 2019

  • James Norton

    On my radar
    On my radar: James Norton’s cultural highlights

    The actor on the visceral emotion of Sharon Van Etten, a historic New York jazz bar and a provocative Broadway sensation

August 2018

  • VICTORIA SIN Cthulhu Through the Looking Glass, 2017, film still. Courtesy: the artist DRAG: Self-portraits and Body Politics at the Hayward Gallery

    Drag: Self-Portraits and Body Politics review – a purely cosmetic exercise

    For all its transgressive aspirations, the Hayward’s sober celebration of cross-dressing largely features artists reprising age-old roles

June 2018

  • How much is that Da Vinci in the window? … a Mona Lisa handbag, made by Jeff Koons for Louis Vuitton.

    Van Gogh leggings and Tracey teacups: how art merch broke out of the gift shop

    Jackson Pollock socks, Louise Bourgeois eyemasks, Guerrilla Girls air freshener … what’s behind the explosion in art merchandise – and who’s really making the money?

November 2017

  • Mapplethorpe self-portrait

    Robert Mapplethorpe's photos document a vanishing kind of artistic community

    Nathan Dunne
    The ways artists connect with and support each other is changing. Mapplethorpe’s work is a testament to the creative communities of the past

October 2017

  • Robert Mapplethorpe 'Self-portrait' 1975 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission.

    Robert Mapplethorpe: the male gaze – in pictures

    The American photographer’s work altered perceptions and pushed boundaries in relation to the male gaze upon the male body

September 2017

  • Thomas Struth’s Art Institute of Chicago II, Chicago (1990)

    How photography became the hottest new investment choice

    The rich are shunning paintings while prices for photographs are soaring, but is it an investment that works for everyone?

August 2017

  • ‘The topography of pain’: Cécile da Costa in The Narrator.

    Edinburgh dance review: The Narrator; Dollhouse; Velvet Petal: Bedroom; Folk

    Cécile da Costa hurls her fury at the universe, Bill Coleman suffers like a medieval martyr, and Edinburgh proves that the most vital work is happening outside London

June 2017

  • Portraits at the 2015 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival<br>AUSTIN, TX - MARCH 13: Director Ondi Timoner poses for a portait for the film "BRAND: A Second Coming" during the 2015 SXSW Music, FIlm + Interactive Festival at the Paramount Theatre on March 13, 2015 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images)

    From Dig! to Jungletown – how Ondi Timoner is 'kicking the door down' for female filmmakers

    With debut TV series Jungletown on air and a film about Robert Mapplethorpe in production, documentary maker Ondi Timoner talks about her gallery of impossible visionaries, falling out with Russell Brand, and why female directors have to ‘kick the door down’

March 2017

  • A cameraman films broken glass from Piss Christ, a controversial piece of art by Andres Serrano, after its partially destruction by two catholic activists.

    Trump's proposal to end arts endowment is latest chapter in a fraught history

    The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded more than $4bn to arts initiatives since it was created in 1965, but has faced threats since the Reagan era

November 2016

  • Jonathan Jones

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Was wild Mapplethorpe just another guy with a camera?

    Jonathan Jones
    Juergen Teller’s selection of Robert Mapplethorpe shots restores the shock. But some of these pairings are more Carry On than cool still life
  • A new work by Anselm Kiefer, going on show at White Cube Bermondsey.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Sensuality, apocalypse and map-making – the week in art

    Colossal new Anselm Kiefer works arrive in London, while Juergen Teller curates the work of Robert Mapplethorpe – plus the rest of the week’s art happenings
  • Jonathan Jones

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Marina Abramovic: the latest target in the rightwing culture wars

    Jonathan Jones
    The accusation that the artist indulged in black magic with John Podesta shows some US conservatives are more reactionary than ever

October 2016

  • Philip Pearlstein Andy Warhol in New York City c1949 Black and white photograph Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. Used by permission. This image may only be used in conjunction with editorial coverage of the exhibition 'Adman: Warhol before pop' at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 25 February – 28 May 2018. This image may not be cropped or overwritten. Prior approval in writing required for use as a cover. The caption as supplied must accompany the reproduction of the image. Media contact: Hannah.McKissock-Davis@ag.nsw.gov.au *** Local Caption *** This image may only be used in conjunction with editorial coverage of the exhibition 'Adman: Warhol before pop' at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 25 February – 28 May 2018. This image may not be cropped or overwritten. Prior approval in writing required for use as a cover. The caption as supplied must accompany the reproduction of the image. Media contact: Hannah.McKissock-Davis@ag.nsw.gov.au

    Art Gallery of NSW: Warhol, Mapplethorpe and Australian women focus of 2017 program

  • Velvet Petal by Scottish Dance Theatre

    'It's not Bob and Patti: The Ballet': new show celebrates Mapplethorpe and Smith's metamorphoses

July 2016

  • ‘Indecently chiselled’: Jeremy Irvine (foreground) in Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall.

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Stonewall; Holding the Man; Mapplethorpe; Batman v Superman; Hardcore Henry; A Kind of Loving; Film4 downloads – review

    Queer cinema exposes a soft centre, caped crusaders meet in a cinematic Spaghetti Junction and Film4 releases a fine haul
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