Due to its graphic nature, please email [email protected] to receive high resolution un-blurred images of the piece. Robert Mapplethorpe's 1978 'X' portfolio is still one of the most provocative ...

The portfolio of Robert Mapplethorpe outtakes, held privately for decades, is being shown for the first time by the Kinsey Institute.

Former restaurateur Keith McNally has recalled Patti Smith and her former partner, Robert Mapplethorpe's alleged behavior towards the restaurant staff in the 70s. McNally mentioned that the former ...

The illustrator dredged the depths of his own subconscious—and tapped into something collectively screwy in America.

Keith McNally wrote in his new memoir "I Regret Nothing" that the "incredibly rude" celebrity once reduced "a waitress to ...

Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer known for his black-and-white portraits and for documenting New York’s S&M scene. He was concerned with Classical aspects of beauty, whether in his ...

He recalled that Smith, 78, dined at the eatery with her ex-boyfriend, Robert Mapplethorpe, and art curator Sam Wagstaff "a few times a week." "On nights when Wagstaff wasn’t at the table ...

photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Mapplethorpe’s ex-Sam Wagstaff often joined the couple. “Smith and Mapplethorpe could be very difficult to wait on,” McNally, 73, writes. “Smith ...

African Daisy, 1982 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Mapplethorpe Flora: The Complete Flowers, Phaidon Calla Lily, 1988 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation ...