In her remarks, Smith explained that in 1967 when she moved to New York City ( Brooklyn ), she would never have been accepted into Pratt, but most of her friends ( including Mapplethorpe ) were students at Pratt and she spent countless hours on the Pratt campus.

The permanent collection of the foundation is based primarily on nine private collections: Solomon R. Guggenheim ’ s collection of non-objective paintings ; Karl Nierendorf ’ s collection of German expressionism and early abstract expressionism ; Katherine S. Dreier's gift of paintings and sculptures ; Peggy Guggenheim ’ s collection, concentrating on abstraction and surrealism ; Justin K. and Hilde Thannhauser ’ s collection of impressionist, post-impressionist, and early modern masterpieces ; part of Hilla von Rebay's collection ; Giuseppe Panza di Biumo's holdings of American minimalist, post-minimalist, environmental and conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s ; a collection of photographs and mixed media from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation ; and the Bohen Foundation's collection of film, video, photography and new media.

She also secured exclusive rights to make " The Perfect Moment ", a film based on the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and enlisted the help of Ondi Timoner.

Smith was a longtime roommate of Mapplethorpe and a frequent subject in his photography, including a stark, iconic photograph that appears on the cover of Smith's first album, Horses.

A final-year undergraduate student was writing a paper on the work of Robert Mapplethorpe and intended to illustrate the paper with a few photographs from Mapplethorpe, a book of the photographer's work.

It explores the influence Mapplethorpe, curator Sam Wagstaff, and musician / poet Patti Smith had on the 1970s art scene in New York City.

Patti Smith's 2010 memoir Just Kids focuses on her relationship with Mapplethorpe.

* In 1967, after first meeting, Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe shared an apartment on Hall Street.

Patti Smith's portrait by Robert Mapplethorpe on the cover of her album Horses ( album ) | Horses has become one of rock's iconic images.

Breakthrough ' star ' artists in the 1970s and 80s, such as Sally Mann and Robert Mapplethorpe, still relied heavily on such genres, although seeing them with fresh eyes.

* March 9 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer ( b. 1946 )

* 9 March – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer ( b. 1946 ).

Robert Mapplethorpe ( November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989 ) was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and nude men.

* 1946 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer ( d. 1989 )

In a 1989 commentary for the New York Times, she wrote that, while " censorship and government interference in the directions and standards of art are dangerous and not part of the democratic process ," controversial grants to Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe and others reflected a trend in which the NEA was supporting work " of increasingly dubious quality.

On June 12, 1989, The Corcoran cancelled the Mapplethorpe exhibition, saying that it did not want to " adversely affect the NEA's congressional appropriations.

* 1989 in art-Death of Pierre Matisse, Robert Mapplethorpe, Salvador Dalí, Jay DeFeo

After the Corcoran refused the Mapplethorpe exhibition, the underwriters of the exhibition went to the nonprofit Washington Project for the Arts, which showed all the images in its space from July 21 to August 13, 1989, to large crowds.

In 1989, the MCA hosted Robert Mapplethorpe, The Perfect Moment, a traveling exhibition organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.

In 1989 he wrote a letter to the National Endowment for the Arts about the grants for Andres Serrano and Robert Mapplethorpe, calling their work " morally reprehensible trash.

After the Corcoran refused the Mapplethorpe exhibition, the underwriters of the exhibition went to the nonprofit Washington Project for the Arts, which showed the controversial images in its own space from July 21-August 13, 1989, to large crowds.

The Gallery made headlines in 1989 with its controversial Selected Sin group exhibition featuring works by Ruth Bernhard, Imogen Cunningham, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jan Saudek, Andres Serrano, and Edward Weston.

* November 4-Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer ( d. 1989 ).

The couple donated the collection two years before a major exhibition of the collection was mounted at LACMA ; the display included photos of and by artistic photographers ranging from chemist Alphonse Poitevin in 1853 to Robert Mapplethorpe in 1988.

Coming three years after the 1991 Robert Mapplethorpe controversy in Cincinnati, Poor Super Man inspired international headlines when the board of directors of Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati temporarily canceled the production because of its anticipated obscenity.

She has been photographed by controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and has been a London socialite for years, attending parties and fashion shows.

In 1996, Congress cut the NEA funding to $ 99. 5 million as a result of pressure from conservative groups, including the American Family Association, who criticized the agency for using tax dollars to fund highly controversial artists such as Robert Clark Young, Barbara Degenevieve, Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe, and the performance artists known as the " NEA Four ".

By withdrawing from the Mapplethorpe exhibition, we, the board of trustees and the director, have inadvertently offended many members of the arts community which we deeply regret.

Mapplethorpe lived with his partner Patti Smith from 1967 – 1974, and she supported him by working in bookstores.

State of the arts: from Bezalel to Mapplethorpe.

The homoerotic photograph: male images from Durieu / Delacroix to Mapplethorpe.

In 1978, after he moved to California to get a fresh start since kicking his heroin addiction, Carroll formed The Jim Carroll Band, a New Wave / punk rock group, with encouragement from Patti Smith, with whom he once shared an apartment in New York City along with Robert Mapplethorpe.

Chatwin told different stories about how he contracted the virus, such as that he was gang-raped in Dahomey, and that he believed he caught the disease from Sam Wagstaff, the patron and lover of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

While her band would not play there until the second incarnation of the club, Patti Smith and her boyfriend, artist Robert Mapplethorpe, visited Max's almost nightly from 1969 through the early 1970s.

The photographic library of the museum has several thousand photographs, from the origin of photography up until today, including works of Nadar, Eugène Atget, Eadweard Muybridge, Étienne-Jules Marey, August Sander, Willy Maywald, Josef Sudek, Robert Mapplethorpe, Duane Michals and Jan Saudek.

Legends from photography and video / film who have also produced record cover images include Drew Struzan ( Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Iron Butterfly, The Beach Boys and others ), Annie Leibovitz ( John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith ), Richard Avedon ( Whitney Houston, Teddy Pendergrass ), Norman Seeff ( The Band, The Rolling Stones, Kiss, Aerosmith ), David LaChappelle ( No Doubt, Elton John ), Anton Corbijn ( U2, The Killers, Depeche Mode ), Karl Ferris ( Jimi Hendrix, Donovan, The Hollies ), Robert Mapplethorpe ( Patti Smith, Peter Gabriel ) and Francesco Scavullo ( Diana Ross, Edgar Winter ), David Michael Kennedy others.

The film received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts shortly during the period when the organization was under fire for funding controversial artists including Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano.

Larry Rivers, Brett Whiteley, Christo, Arman, Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel, Ching Ho Cheng, David Remfry, Philip Taaffe, Ralph Gibson, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Robert Crumb, Jasper Johns, Edie Sedgwick, Claes Oldenburg, Vali Myers, Donald Baechler, Herbert Gentry, Willem De Kooning, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lynne Drexler, Nora Sumberg and Henri Cartier-Bresson have all spent time at the hotel.

During her career, she has also worked with many other renowned photographers, including Richard Avedon, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Peter Lindbergh, Norman Parkinson, Eve Arnold, Francesco Scavullo, Annie Leibovitz, Denis Piel, and Robert Mapplethorpe.

In 1992, the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation gifted 200 of his best photographs to the foundation.

Republican representative Dick Armey, an opponent of federal arts funding, began to attack a planned exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Corcoran Museum of Art that was to receive NEA support.

" The Washington Project for the Arts later hosted the Mapplethorpe show.

Mapplethorpe was born and grew up as a Roman Catholic of English and Irish heritage in Our Lady of the Snows Parish in Floral Park, Queens, New York.

His parents were Harry and Joan Mapplethorpe and he grew up with five brothers and sisters.

Mapplethorpe took his first photographs soon thereafter using a Polaroid camera.

Nearly a year before his death, the ailing Mapplethorpe helped found the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc. His vision for the Foundation was that it would be " the appropriate vehicle to protect his work, to advance his creative vision, and to promote the causes he cared about ".