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Robert Mapplethorpe
Performer
Biography
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Rooms they shaped
The Saint
1980–1988 · East Village, Manhattan
Performer, Photographed Black Party guests in the early 1980s.
Mineshaft
1976–1985 · Meatpacking District, Manhattan
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. 'Performer' is the closest available schema role, his function was as visual artist-in-residence.
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First woman to headline both The Saint and the Paradise Garage
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Circuit and house DJ; first woman to headline the Saint-at-Large Black Party
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