What Are Intellectuals Good For? Nov 17, 2009
Never mind, he says, it is enough that they muddle along, employing and occasionally articulating the criteria that have emerged from our culture s conversation since the Greeks initiated it, and showing that what used to and still usually does underwrite our judgments about beauty and truth is inconsistent with giving Robert Mapplethorpe a one-man show. or Toni Morrison a Nobel Prize. (The American Conservative)
Black and White Photography Book Re... Nov 9, 2009
Some of the major artists that Lozoya admired were Ernest Brooks II, Yousuf Karsh and his printer, Robert Mapplethorpe and his printer, Tom Bari, Ansel Adams, and the imagery of William Mortensen. The only photographer that I recognized here was Ansel Adams. (Suite101.com)
Photography by Brett Weston at the Currier Museum of Art Nov 8, 2009
None of Robert Mapplethorpe s flower studies from half a century later can outdo it in voluptuary classicism. Not that contrast was just something Weston contrived in a studio. (Boston Globe)
Wonder, the Impossible and the Everyday and other announcements Nov 3, 2009
g., Bernd and Hilla Becher s), Walker Evans s portraits of tools, and in their formal composition, to Robert Mapplethorpe s abstract and sexualized depictions of bodies and flowers. Shirreff s photographs thus straddle, perhaps uneasily, the thin line between representation and abstraction: ambiguously defined objects are clearly itemized as their mottled surfaces are transformed into varying tones of light and dark. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Paul Tschinkel at Freies Museum Berlin Oct 21, 2009
Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Laurie Anderson, Nam June Paik, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lee Krasner and Mark Kostabi are just a few of the artists that Tschinkel accompanied in the last thirty years ... Unique portrays of fascinating artist and musicians and a intimate documentation on Robert Mapplethorpe, which was never shown to the public before are part of the program. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Shake It :An Instant History of the Polaroid Oct 12, 2009
Included in this exhibition are works by Nobuyoshi Araki -Rut Blees Luxemburg - Guy Bourdin - Tim Braden - Roe Ethridge - Walker Evans - Richard Hamilton - David Hockney - Andr Kertsz - Robert Mapplethorpe - Jonathan Monk -Lisa Oppenheim - Lucas Samaras - Michael Snow-Juergen Teller - Andy Warhol - Wim Wenders. Besides work by some of the most important artists working with the medium, the show will also include Polaroids from other diverse professions and disciplines such as forensics,... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Through the lens of time Sep 22, 2009
Four decades later, the Polaroid Collection has 16,000 prints by 120 recognized masters: 443 Ansel Adamses, 198 Phillipe Halsmans, 35 Mary Ellen Marks, and so on through Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Rauschenberg, Inge Morath, and Margaret Bourke-White. It s not just Polaroids. (Boston Globe)
Athens makes Pericles proud Jul 12, 2009
Photographers with work in the show include Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin, Tina Barney, Thomas Ruff, Sally Mann, and Wolfgang Tillmans. Museumplatz 1, 011-43-1-52189-33, www. (Boston Globe)
David Scott; led galleries at Smithsonian Apr 7, 2009
In 1990, the trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art asked him to take over as acting director after the previous director was forced to resign because of protests over the cancellation of an exhibition of homoerotic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. Dr. Scott was 73 at the time and was renovating a barn on Maryland's Eastern Shore that would become his studio, so he turned down the request. (Boston Globe)
Longtime Norton Museum director leaving West Palm Beach, headed for Seattle Mar 24, 2009
" When Orr-Cahall arrived from Washington's Corcoran Gallery, where she departed under fire after canceling an edgy Robert Mapplethorpe show, she thought she might be here for five to seven years. But "this community refreshes itself, and there were great opportunities," she said. "In 1990, the Norton hadn't expanded in 50 years. The community had clearly outgrown the museum. (The Palm Beach Post)
Palm Springs Art Museum A different look at Robert Mapplethorpe (7) Mar 23, 2009
Palm Springs Art Museum A different look at Robert Mapplethorpe. Robert Mapplethorpe's self portrait ... Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) is notoriously known for his late-career, overtly sexual X Portfolio series. (Desert Entertainer, CA)
10 things to do this weekend Mar 6, 2009
CONFER. Photographer Catherine Opie and other experts will participate in a discussion of the late photographer ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE: ARTIST AND ACTIVIST. The talk and post-discussion reception, take place at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. March 7, 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 40 Arts Circle Dr., Evanston, (847) 491-4000. (Crain's Chicago Business)
