Topic: Robert Mapplethorpe
Tweet . James Franco goes undercover in a baseball cap and cardigan as he arrives at Chateau Marmont on Sunday (January 15) in Los Angeles.. . The...
James Franco is attached to star in a dramatic feature about the controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, which has been selected as one of...
It's a tale as old as the city and as young as ambition itself.. . Patti Smith's widely lauded book "Just Kids" whisks us back to the late 1960s...
Growing up in New Jersey, Smith won an art scholarship to Glassboro State Teachers College. Following the album Wave in 1979, Smith disbanded her group and retired to Detroit, Mich., where she raised a family with Fred ("Sonic") Smith, founder of the ...
Did Susan Sarandon never teach her daughter about the perils of overdoing it on Toronto hot dogs?. . Twenty-five, and a dead-ringer for her famous...
An entirely new interpretation of modern American portraiture based on the history of sexual difference. Arcing from the turn of the twentieth century, through the emergence of the modern gay liberation movement in 1969, the tragedies of the AIDS epidemic, and to ...
Obscenity, as defined by the U.S. Supreme Court, conduct or material appealing solely to lewd tastes and “lacking serious literary, artistic...
Upon first looking at the portrait, it really captured my gaze; there is something strikingly different about this "self portrait. To me, Robert Mapplethorpe looks just like (or as if he's trying to look just like) James Dean from Rebel Without ...
The Mapplethorpe exhibit, or Mapplethorpe photographs, contributed to one of the most controversial art exhibitions in modern history. The inclusion of the Mapplethorpe photographs in a traveling exhibit funded by the United States National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) sparked an enormous ...
Early history
Around 1910, 78 rpm records replaced phonograph cylinder as the medium for recorded sound. The 78 rpm records were issued in both 10" and 12" diameter sizes and were usually sold separately, in brown paper or cardboard sleeves that were ...