Mapplethorpe
Americannoun
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Mapplethorpe genuflects at the altar of that icon with a platinum portrait of Warhol, backed by a halo of light and surrounded by silk panels that form a cross.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
As Smith once again explains, in writing “Just Kids,” she was keeping a promise she made to Robert Mapplethorpe to tell their story.
From Salon • Nov. 11, 2025
Scores of artists as well-known as Berenice Abbott, Anthony Friedkin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray and Edmund Teske hang with more than a dozen unknowns.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2025
It features historic moments from the civil rights movement to Aids activism, and includes works by Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, William Eggleston, Diane Arbus, Ai Weiwei and others.
From BBC • May 15, 2024
“So Mapplethorpe gave these dudes a kind of noir feel, right? Well, I want to do that with dude-like things. Cray-Cray's shed seems like the most badass dude-cave at the whole school.”
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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