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UNITED STATES / New York: Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now
by Modem
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until Sunday January 05 2020

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
T : +1 (212) 423-3500
1071 5th Ave
10128 New York
United States

https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/mapplethorpe

One of the most critically acclaimed and controversial American artists of the late twentieth century, Robert Mapplethorpe created daring and formally rigorous photographs. He is widely known for images that deliberately transgressed social mores and for the censorship debates that transformed him into a symbol of the culture wars in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Now, a yearlong exhibition project in two parts, Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe, explores the full range of the artist’s practice as well as his complex legacy in the field of contemporary art.

This exhibition is organized by Lauren Hinkson, Associate Curator, Collections, and Susan Thompson, Associate Curator, with Levi Prombaum, Curatorial Assistant, Collections.

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