Summary
Scotland's first retrospective of the controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe opens this weekend - the first such exhibition in a public gallery in Britain for a decade.
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art show on Edinburgh's Belford Road comprises nearly 80 photographs, including portraits of Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, Truman Capote, Grace Jones and Iggy Pop. There are also extraordinary self-portraits; works from his infamous Portfolio X series which chronicled New York's underground sex clubs, and exquisite studies of leaves and flowers.See the full content of this document
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This Weekend:Staged Show
Mapplethorpe gained notoriety in the 1970s and 1980s with his photographs of the male and female nude. His first substan...
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