One Artist, Two Museums, Many Interpretations

Robert Mapplethorpe has taken over Los Angeles, with a major two-part retrospective on view at LACMA and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Drawn largely from the Mapplethorpe archive jointly acquired by the two institutions in 2011, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium presents the full scope of the artist’s work, from his earliest collage-based works, through his early Polaroids, to late floral still-lifes and portraits. With such rich visual and archival resources on display, our audiences have an unprecedented opportunity to reflect on Mapplethorpe’s legacy, which has been both social and aesthetic.

Read the complete overview on the joint-exhibition, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium on Unframed: http://bit.ly/1U0jAd1