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Robert Mapplethorpe

Artist · Performer

ArtistPerformer2 rooms · 20 connected figures

Biography

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Rooms they shaped

The Saint

1980–1988 · East Village, Manhattan

ClosedClub

Artist, Photographed Black Party guests in the early 1980s.

Mineshaft

1976–1985 · Meatpacking District, Manhattan

ClosedBar

Performer, Official photographer of the Mineshaft; documented the space and its community in images that became central to the 1989–1990 federal arts-funding and obscenity controversies.

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