Comments on: Mapplethorpe Portraits at UofA

By: Carolyn Classen

Carolyn Classen — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:41:46 +0000

Reminder: this exhibit continues to October 4 at Center for Creative Photography at U of A campus. Attended last night’s talk by Mapplethorpe’s former assistant Brian English, who worked there in NYC from 1986 to 1989.

By: Ado

Ado — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:46:51 +0000

Lefty, why is no one surprised?

By: leftfield

leftfield — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:35:02 +0000

It’s a common misconception, but when we’re not busy torturing little kittens or passing out drugs at grade schools, we like to look at art; especially art with homoerotic and sadomasochistic themes.

By: Ado

Ado — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:26:43 +0000

What's the deal Lefty, are you not aware that communism has never advocated art or artists? The working proletariat has no time for such bourgeois pastimes when the food shelves at the collective are so barren and empty.

By: Paul Brown

Paul Brown — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:00:52 +0000

From today’s comment by the Irish Jesuits on-line: “A put-down tells more about the speaker than about the victim. Save me, Lord, from such folly. The fact that I know someone’s family and history can blind me to the depths and dreams that make them precious to others. ”

Entry currently called from SSM.

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By: tiponeill

tiponeill — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:00:50 +0000

Luckily, as with many great artists, his work outlives him and will outlive Jesse Helms, Gulianni and the other right wing bigots who have disgraced America for so long.

By: leftfield

leftfield — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:55:21 +0000

So says the art critic. Sorry, Norman Rockwell’s work is not available right now.

By: Ado

Ado — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:17:04 +0000

Mapplethorpe is a shining example of why all taxpayer funding of "art" should be cut off and permanently discontinued. Thankfully he was removed from decent society at age 42 by his own promiscuous homosexual life , that being the result of a lifestyle induced disease(aids). His explicit homoerotic and sadomasochistic porn is disgusting to all but the few twisted minds who enjoy viewing images of homosexual porn mixed in with homosexual masochism. Good riddance to a genuine P.O.S. who in every sense was doing his level best to corrupt the minds of those who passed by and inadvertently exposed themselves to his filth.

By: azmouse

azmouse — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:51:25 +0000

They ARE beautiful.

By: Karyn Zoldan

Karyn Zoldan — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:51:11 +0000

I saw this exhibit on Saturday along with two friends and we were in awe. A must-see for sure.