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  2. Robert Mapplethorpe - Wikipedia

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    Robert Michael Mapplethorpe (/ ˈ m eɪ p əl ˌ θ ɔːr p / MAY-pəl-thorp; November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes , self-portraits, and still-life images.

  3. The Perfect Moment - Wikipedia

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    Robert Mapplethorpe's XYZ portfolios, explored three subjects: homosexual sadomasochism (X); flower still lifes (Y); and nude portraits of African American men (Z). The extremely graphic S&M photos from Mapplethorpe's X Portfolio were displayed in a separate, age-restricted area at each venue of the exhibition.

  4. Robert Mapplethorpe's "Perfect Moment" - AOL

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    The controversial artist is being celebrated in a major new exhibition at NYC's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum—three decades after his death—that calls for a rethinking of his oeuvre

  5. National Portrait Gallery (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The idea of a federally owned national portrait gallery can be traced back to 1886, when Robert C. Winthrope, president of the Massachusetts Historical Society, visited the National Portrait Gallery in London. Upon his return to the United States, Winthrope began pressing for the establishment of a similar museum in the United States. [2]

  6. Ziggy Stardust costumes to feature among 90,000 artefacts in ...

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    In May, an exhibition of hundreds of photos collected by Sir Elton John went on display at the museum, including shots by Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Avedon (of The Beatles), and Herman Leonard ...

  7. Artists Space Gallery - Wikipedia

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    A range of exhibitions included emerging artists and those well recognised nationally and internationally. [11] While located in Essendon, in the opinion of The Age newspaper art reviewer Beatrice Faust, Placek's exhibitions "accumulated a lot of critical capital," as it "showed small collections of consistently good and sometimes excellent work," [10] including Robert Mapplethorpe's 1983 ...

  8. Corcoran Gallery of Art - Wikipedia

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    After the Corcoran cancelled the Mapplethorpe exhibition, the underwriters of the exhibition went to the nonprofit Washington Project for the Arts, [10] which showed the controversial images in its own space from July 21 to August 13, 1989, to large crowds. [11] [12] The 1990 NEA Appropriations Bill included language against "obscene" work. [13]

  9. Fine-art photography - Wikipedia

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    Prints were thus shown without any glass reflections obscuring them. Steichen's famous The Family of Man exhibition was unframed, the pictures pasted to panels. Even as late as 1966 Bill Brandt's MoMA show was unframed, with simple prints pasted to thin plywood. From the mid-1950s to about 2000 most gallery exhibitions had prints behind glass.