• Sign In
  • Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • Sign In
  • Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
Skip to content
Hyperallergic

Hyperallergic

Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

Robert Mapplethorpe

Posted inPerformance

Mining Robert Mapplethorpe’s Legacy, With Missteps

by Gabriel Grossman and John Sherer July 24, 2019July 29, 2019

Though its music, and use of Mapplethorpe’s photographs and texts by Essex Hemphill and Patti Smith were impressive in their own rights, the performance Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) ultimately appeared cheap, forced, and self-congratulatory.

Posted inArt

Pulled into Robert Mapplethorpe’s Vortex of Voyeurism

Avatar photo by Zachary Small March 28, 2019March 28, 2019

“What’s S&M?” I overhear a woman asking her husband in the exhibition. “The artist says here that it stands for sex and magic, but this set up doesn’t look very magical.”

Posted inFilm

The New Robert Mapplethorpe Biopic Is Ironically Timid

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel March 7, 2019March 6, 2019

The movie barely feels invested in Mapplethorpe’s art, much less in trying to replicate its sensibility.

Posted inArt

Looking at Queer Constellations of Intimacy

Avatar photo by Zachary Small August 20, 2018August 20, 2018

Intimacy at Yossi Milo Gallery unites a diverse assembly of artists tracing the outline of affection from the 1980s to present day.

Posted inPerformance

Black Queer Artists Explore the In-Between

by Lillian Kalish October 3, 2017October 4, 2017

At LA’s Main Museum, an evening of multimedia performance including hip-hop, poetry, and readings looked at the intersections between queerness and blackness.

Posted inArt

The Woman Behind Critique My Dick Pic Sizes Up Art Photos of Male Nudes

by Christine Ro August 30, 2017August 31, 2017

In tongue-in-cheek answers, Madeleine Holden assigns a Critique My Dick Pic-style review and grade for artists’ photographs of male nudes, ranging from the late 19th century to today.

Posted inFilm

A Mapplethorpe Documentary Favors Contemplation Over Controversy

by Jon Hogan November 16, 2016

Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s new documentary Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures offers intimate insights into the controversial photographer’s life and persona.

Posted inArt

Longing for Keith Haring’s Lighthearted Penises

by John Sherman September 13, 2016

It may seem unusual to uphold a book of penis drawings as a significant art-historical moment, but Manhattan Penis Drawings for Ken Hicks creates an unignorable link between Haring’s early work and his homosexuality.

Posted inArt

Catherine Opie’s Intimate Photographs of S&M

Avatar photo by Erin Joyce August 31, 2016March 13, 2019

LOS ANGELES — If you visited LA this summer, it would have been hard for you to ignore the presence of Robert Mapplethorpe.

Posted inArt

Robert Mapplethorpe: Beauty, Power, and Sex from the Outside

by Douglas Messerli April 30, 2016May 29, 2016

LOS ANGELES — The remarkable two-museum show Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium, gathering hundreds of photographs, collages, installations and other objects at both the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Getty Center, represents just a portion of the spectacular gift of the Mapplethorpe Trust to those institutions.

Posted inNews

Artist Claims Copyright to Four Photos of Robert Mapplethorpe in $65 Million Lawsuit

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton April 7, 2016April 7, 2016

On Tuesday, the poet, actor, photographer, and makeup artist James R. Miller filed a lawsuit against the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, claiming copyright to four photographs that have been shown and sold for decades as Mapplethorpe’s work.

Posted inArt

25 Years After an Obscenity Trial, Cincinnati Reflects on Robert Mapplethorpe

by Alina Cohen February 24, 2016February 29, 2016

CINCINNATI — What do you think of when you hear the name “Robert Mapplethorpe?”

Posts navigation

1 2 Older posts
Hyperallergic
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn

Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the world today. Founded in 2009, Hyperallergic is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

  • Home
  • Latest
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • About
  • Support Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Sign In
  • Membership
  • Newsletters
  • Submissions
  • Careers
© 2023 Hyperallergic. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy