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June 9, 2016. Untitled, 2016, Jack Ludden. Digital photomontage of Self-portrait, 2014 (left), Self-portrait, 1989 (right), and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1989 Jack Ludden. Twenty-seven years...
On June 30, 1989, our colleague Roxanne Roberts was there to cover the protest. What follows is her original story, which ran in The Washington Post the next day.
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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...
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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 . [7]
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 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...
Robert Michael Mapplethorpe ( / ˈmeɪpəlˌθɔːrp / MAY-pəl-thorp; November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, and still-life images.
