WHAT'S IN A NAME? Serena Altschul, now, with a tale of two brothers... When you hear the name Mapplethorpe, it's this man who comes to mind: Robert Mapplethorpe, a photographer whose pictures of ...

Hand-picked portraits of curiosity, alarm, and self-possession take form in photographs of infants in Edward Mapplethorpe’s new book, “One: Sons & Daughters”—including that of the photographer’s own ...

During Robert Mapplethorpe's brief time in college, he kept a pet monkey named Scratch. But the famed photographer quickly lost interest in the creature, according to his biographer Patricia Morrisroe ...

Think “Robert Mapplethorpe” and whatever words come to your head will almost assuredly not match Mapplethorpe, a new movie starring erstwhile Doctor Who and The Crown star Matt Smith as the ...

A new exhibition at the Guggenheim museum in New York and a forthcoming film explore Robert Mapplethorpe, the photographer behind some of the 20th century’s most brazen and beautiful images. By Laurie ...

Ondi Timoner’s biopic of the provocative photographer, whose work helped kick off the culture war, received terrible reviews but gets a stunning trailer. “I would’ve been a painter, but the camera was ...

"I spent a day with him and he was able to calm," Smith says of her longtime friend on the Jan. 8 episode the 'All There Is with Anderson Cooper' podcast Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She ...

First Mapplethorpe-only exhibit for North America %27The Coral Sea%27 runs through November Mapplethorpe%27s confidence in her %27really changed my life.%27 CINCINNATI -- In Just Kids, Patti Smith's ...

The major retrospective of Robert Mapplethorpe’s work that the J. Paul Getty Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art promised four years ago when they jointly acquired some 2,000 images by the New ...

In his life and especially in the stories told of his life, Robert Mapplethorpe has represented a multitude of identities and meanings. He created elegant photographs of flowers and celebrities and ...