With that issue largely resolved by the practice of superstars like Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst, who created their own editions of works, Mapplethorpe was able to attract, for good or ill, more headlines and more collector buying. What belonged in art? What belonged in photography? How to sell a work with multiples wasn’t easy. Meanwhile, the art industry was still wrestling with how to price photographs and photographers. Gachet hit $82.5 million at Christie's, setting off a boom. Mapplethorpe's larger problem with exposure and legacy was that he died just as the art world was transformed into a multimillionaire’s playground, expiring the same year Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift, The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith, 1976 gelatin silver print, 35.2 x 34.9 cm Solomon R. In the show, says Guggenheim museum director Richard Armstrong, there are a few pictures “beautiful beyond belief.some weaknesses,” and it may be “polarizing,” he says. Presented over the course of an entire year-the Guggenheim has a huge trove of Mapplethorpes, gifts from the artist’s foundation-the first half is works by the artist the second half, opening July 24, features artists he influenced. Guggenheim Museum opens a big and striking sorry-not-sorry exhibition of the full and frank range of his work. Now, 30 years after Mapplethorpe’s death, the Solomon R. The director of Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center was tried for obscenity for displaying the photos-he was acquitted-and the Culture Wars began. That was the title of an infamous 1990 exhibition of the groundbreaking photographer’s works it sparked a firestorm of controversy over whether National Endowment for the Arts funds should be used to exhibit Mapplethorpe’s sometimes graphic sexual imagery. It looks like this finally might be “The Perfect Moment” for Robert Mapplethorpe.
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