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.

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

* Robert Mapplethorpe presented one of his first photography exhibitions entitled Erotic Photos at The Kitchen in 1977

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.

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.

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.

Robert Mapplethorpe and the classical tradition: photographs and Mannerist prints.

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.

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 ".

Mapplethorpe: assault with a deadly camera: a pop culture memoir, an outlaw reminiscence.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

* 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.

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

Mapplethorpe died on the morning of March 9, 1989, 42 years old, in a Boston, Massachusetts, hospital from complications arising from AIDS.

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 ".

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