Robert Mapplethorpe

Patti Smith paying tribute to Robert Mapplethorpe at Brooklyn "NY PopsUp" performance

If you can’t be there in person, it’ll also stream on Instagram.

Gem Spa has become "Schitibank" ahead of cash mob Saturday

A satire of blatant marketing schemes like Target East Village’s CBGB “recreation,” the “Schitibank” design installation features Jean-Michel Basquiat, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, The New York Dolls, Robert Mapplethorpe, and more.

Bryce Dessner's new work about Robert Mapplethorpe coming to BAM, L.A., D.C., more

Acclaimed and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe is the subject of a new musical/theatrical work by The National’s Bryce Dessner, titled ’Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)’…

Zosia Mamet of 'Girls' to play Patti Smith in Robert Mapplethorpe biopic from the director of DiG!

Ondi Timoner, who spent years filming The Brian Jonestown Massacre for rock doc DiG!, will make her non-documentary feature debut with Maplethorpe, about acclaimed and controversial artist Robert Maplethorpe who died in 1989…