Tag: Robert Mapplethorpe
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Peter Hujar: Eyes Open in the Dark
A generous survey captures the full range of the American photographer, who chronicled New York’s gay scene during the 1970s and 80s
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Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks
This thoughtful and comprehensive retrospective spans more than 30 years of Wearing’s work, in which she explores the nature of identity and self and the masks – literal and metaphorical – behind which we hide
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Unearthed: Photography’s Roots
The first major exhibition of photography at the Dulwich Picture Gallery uses nature as a lens to examine the science, history and culture of the medium, while asking what is a ‘picture’ in the 21st century?
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Artist Rooms: Self Evidence – Photographs by Woodman, Arbus and Mapplethorpe
In their intimate and groundbreaking portraits, Woodman, Arbus and Mapplethorpe dared to show the diversity of identity and their struggle to exist on their own terms
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From the Vapor of Gasoline
This exhibition is a lively collection of works from a group of impressive and challenging artists, which together tell a powerful story of the social ills affecting the US from the Nixon years to the turn of the century
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Anthea Hamilton: ‘There is something quite liberating about knowing that you can’t always resolve things because it gives you the freedom to go for it’
The Turner Prize-nominated artist talks about her experience of reimagining the Kettle’s Yard collection at the University of Cambridge in a contemporary and collaborative fashion
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Robert Mapplethorpe: Objects
An enlightening and enriching insight into the juvenilia of the controversial photographer, showing 12 rarely seen collage and assemblage works, in which he develops motifs and themes that continue throughout his career
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Robert Mapplethorpe
Grand Palais, Paris 26 March 2014 – 13 July 2014
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A gift horse in the mouth: the Artists Rooms project and the d’Offay bequest 2008
On 27 February 2008 a major announcement was made at Edinburgh’s National Gallery of Modern Art. Before the assembled British art luminaries, news was announced of possibly the greatest art bequest of the twentieth century and to date. Anthony d’Offay…
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Seduced by the Oldest Topic in the World
Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now Barbican Arts Centre 12 October 2007–27 January 2008 Sex is an extremely popular subject, but ‘sex appeal’ is nearly impossible to define. People seem to seek this elusive quality in everything they…
