LinkLinks WAMU: ‘One Of The Biggest Ghosts Of Our Past’: Corcoran Revisits Its Canceled Mapplethorpe Exhibition 30 Years Later By Editor On Jun 13, 2019 Last updated Jun 13, 2019 42 Share In June 1989, at the height of the AIDS crisis, staff at the Corcoran Gallery of Art were preparing to open an exhibition of nearly 150 black-and-white photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. The photographer had died of AIDS that spring at the age of 42, and the exhibition, “Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment,” was supposed to be a retrospective of his work. 42 Share FacebookTwitterReddItWhatsAppEmailPrint
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