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Twenty-seven years ago, controversy erupted over Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs. It changed my life. In June 1989, I was 22, a newly declared art history major at Northwestern University ...
On the eve of what was to have been the opening of “Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment,” more than 900 artists and supporters gathered outside the Corcoran Gallery of Art last night to ...
By Ruth Steinhardt Thirty years after the Corcoran Gallery of Art canceled a controversial show by the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at the George Washington University will revisit the cancellation, the backlash, and the reverberations of both through the art world in Washington, D.C., and beyond.
Oct 7, 2019 · The panel commemorated the 30 th anniversary of the former Corcoran Gallery canceling the 1989 retrospective exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe’s art due to political pressure. (His work was deemed obscene by conservative lawmakers.)
Jun 12, 2019 · June 12, 2019 at 12:00 p.m. EDT. A Robert Mapplethorpe self-portrait is projected on the Corcoran Gallery of Art during a 1989 protest over trustees’ decision not to show his work. (Carol Guzy ...
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Mapplethorpe controversy. In 1989, the Corcoran Gallery of Art agreed to host a traveling solo exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe's works. Mapplethorpe showed a new series that he had explored shortly before his death, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, which was curated by Janet Kardon of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.
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Jun 26, 2019 · On 1 July 1989, the now-defunct Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC was slated to open The Perfect Moment, a retrospective of the work of the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.On 12 June, the ...
