Robert Mapplethorpe

‘We have to fight for what is right’: Patti Smith on gender, Sally Rooney and Cop26

In the run-up to the climate conference, the rock’n’roll poet reflects – with a little help from her daughter – on a life spent breaking barriers, hanging out with Dylan and learning to Instagram

Nadia Khomami

29, Oct, 2021 @1:08 PM

Patti Smith: 'I feel the unrest of the world in the pit of my stomach'

The singer on solitude, lifelong friend Sam Shepard, and her latest memoir

Kate Kellaway

20, Sep, 2020 @9:00 AM

On my radar: James Norton’s cultural highlights

The actor on the visceral emotion of Sharon Van Etten, a historic New York jazz bar and a provocative Broadway sensation

Michael Hogan

29, Dec, 2019 @12:00 PM

Drag: Self-Portraits and Body Politics review – a purely cosmetic exercise

For all its transgressive aspirations, the Hayward’s sober celebration of cross-dressing largely features artists reprising age-old roles

Peter Conrad

26, Aug, 2018 @7:00 AM

Van Gogh leggings and Tracey teacups: how art merch broke out of the gift shop

Jackson Pollock socks, Louise Bourgeois eyemasks, Guerrilla Girls air freshener … what’s behind the explosion in art merchandise – and who’s really making the money?

Jenny Stevens

25, Jun, 2018 @5:00 AM

Robert Mapplethorpe's photos document a vanishing kind of artistic community

The ways artists connect with and support each other is changing. Mapplethorpe’s work is a testament to the creative communities of the past

Nathan Dunne

07, Nov, 2017 @3:58 AM

How photography became the hottest new investment choice

The rich are shunning paintings while prices for photographs are soaring, but is it an investment that works for everyone?

Patrick Collinson

16, Sep, 2017 @6:00 AM

Edinburgh dance review: The Narrator; Dollhouse; Velvet Petal: Bedroom; Folk

Cécile da Costa hurls her fury at the universe, Bill Coleman suffers like a medieval martyr, and Edinburgh proves that the most vital work is happening outside London

Luke Jennings

27, Aug, 2017 @7:00 AM

From Dig! to Jungletown – how Ondi Timoner is 'kicking the door down' for female filmmakers

With debut TV series Jungletown on air and a film about Robert Mapplethorpe in production, documentary maker Ondi Timoner talks about her gallery of impossible visionaries, falling out with Russell Brand, and why female directors have to ‘kick the door down’

Rebecca Nicholson

19, Jun, 2017 @3:35 PM

Trump's proposal to end arts endowment is latest chapter in a fraught history

The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded more than $4bn to arts initiatives since it was created in 1965, but has faced threats since the Reagan era

Amanda Holpuch in New York

16, Mar, 2017 @6:04 PM

Was wild Mapplethorpe just another guy with a camera?

Juergen Teller’s selection of Robert Mapplethorpe shots restores the shock. But some of these pairings are more Carry On than cool still life

Jonathan Jones

18, Nov, 2016 @4:43 PM

Sensuality, apocalypse and map-making – the week in art

Colossal new Anselm Kiefer works arrive in London, while Juergen Teller curates the work of Robert Mapplethorpe – plus the rest of the week’s art happenings