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.

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.

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.

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 ".

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.

Titled Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, it was curated by Janet Kardon of the Institute of Contemporary Art ( ICA ).

In 1998, the University of Central England was involved in a controversy when a book by Mapplethorpe was confiscated.

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.

In 2006, a Mapplethorpe print of Andy Warhol was auctioned for $ 643, 200, making it the 11th most expensive photograph ever sold.

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.

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.

It was at this time that Nesbitt, a long-time friend of Mapplethorpe, revealed that he had a $ 1. 5 million bequest to the museum in his will.

After a period as an Assistant Curator at the Tate Gallery ( 1976 – 80 ) Nairne was appointed Director of Exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts ( ICA ), a position he held until 1984-exhibitions included " Brand New York ," Robert Mapplethorpe, Mary Miss, " Women's Images of Men ," and " About Time.

* Robert Mapplethorpe, photographer, was born and raised in Floral Park, Queens, where members of his family attended Our Lady of the Snows Catholic School.

Marie was a model for Robert Mapplethorpe and was featured in photographer Bruce Weber's ad campaign for designer Calvin Klein's Obsession perfume.

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.

He was famously photographed by Robert Mapplethorpe.

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

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 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.

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

Serrano, alongside other artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe, became a figure whom Senator Jesse Helms, and Senator Alphonse D ' Amato, as well as other cultural conservatives, attacked for producing offensive art while others, including The New York Times, defended him in the name of artistic freedom.

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.

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

* 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.

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.

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 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 ".

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 ).

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

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

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

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.