From Shock to Awe
Ariella Budick, Financial Times
February 2019
Robert Mapplethorpe was a consummate formalist, driven by his will to beauty. His lens roved across muscled limbs, taut skin, leather, hair, fabric, flowers and phalluses, conferring a classical glow on them all. An elegant and profound retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum celebrates Mapplethorpe’s fierce pursuit of perfection and hunger for control. […]