Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe : Implicit Tensions PT2 @ Guggenheim NY
Last week the Guggenheim Museum in NY unveiled the second part of their major retrospective of the legendary queer artist Robert ‘Mapplethorpe called Implicit Tensions Whereas the first part of the Exhibit, which recently closed, ,featured highlights from the Guggenheim’s in-depth Mapplethorpe holdings which the Mapplethorpe Foundation gifted them in 1993 They included early…
Looking at Mapplethorpe
2016 is going to be a good year to look at the work of the celebrated controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. First there is a brand new documentary by the prolific gay filmmakers Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato (‘Party Monster’ ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’) called Mapplethorpe : Look at the Pictures . It had…
