If you have ever posted a profile picture to Facebook, you may know something about the level of thought, planning and detail that can go into a portrait. Sexually and racially charged nudes may have ...

Inside the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition that sparked a First Amendment showdown in Cincinnati. We're sorry, but something went wrong while fetching your podcast ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe would have been thrilled to be the toast of Paris Fashion Week with the opening of an ...

Counter protestors after the American Family Association took issue with a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition in 1990 (© John Stamstad Photography; courtesy Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati) As ...

A museum canceled a show by the legendary photographer. What can that decision teach us about the First Amendment? No Sin in Cincinnati: Robert Mapplethorpe's Legacy What happens when art catches the ...

In this week’s art section, I write about the decision made in 1989 by the director of the prominent Washington, D.C. museum the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Christina Orr-Cahall, to cancel a scheduled ...

Six notorious artistic controversies, from Édouard Manet’s “Olympia” to Tracey Emin’s “My Bed.” By Julia Halperin As the Maastricht fair continues to update its outlook, an emphasis on photography is ...