Review: LACMA's 'XYZ' on Robert Mapplethorpe: Gay artist vs. straight tradn
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REVIEW: LACMA’S ‘XYZ’ ON ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE: GAY ARTIST VS. STRAIGHT TRADN
Twenty-five years sce the photographer’s posthumo exhibn – which clud imag of gay S&M – beme a pot of bate, what have we learned? * was robert mapplethorpe gay *
Chartg his personal volvement New York’s gay scene, Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs monstrated a pellg perspective on the unrground queer culture of the 1970s and 1980s. Patti Smh's boyiend, the gay New York artist who died of AIDS, the man who took a picture of fistg and lled art: However you know of cult photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, 's strange that we know so ltle about the man himself.
Famed for shootg male nus, the sndal of the homoeroticism his pictur has overshadowed both the artist and work photos are strikg, even today still reasonably shockg, and unflchg.
He worked whout apology, vtg the homosexual wh granur, masculy, and enviable nobily.
* was robert mapplethorpe gay *
Gays weren't nng around llg themselv gay.