Why Mapplethorpe Still Matters Because he’s become part of the canon, with auction prices to match, but there are still places — The New York Times is one — where his most sexually charged photographs are considered too transgressive for reproduction. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/arts/design/why-mapplethorpe-still-matters.html?_r=0 A quarter-century later, canonization is complete. In Los Angeles, a doubleheader retrospective, … Continue reading Why Mapplethorpe Still Matters – The New York Times