When a Cincinnati museum was charged with obscenity for showing Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs, his name became synonymous with “deviant” art. In an excerpt from her biography, Patricia Morrisroe untangles the Gordian knot of Mapplethorpe’s work and his sexuality, and examines his relationship with punk-rock poet Patti Smith – a perverse mix of love, jealousy, and ambition
New York Magazine People were actually weeping. Anita Gallo, former fashion·merchandising director of Altman’s, couldn’t control herself. She kept on wiping away the tears with the knuckle of her index finger. Read...
New York Magazine George Carroll Whipple III is running up and down the hallway of the Seventh Regiment Armory, hanging dozens of poster-size photographs of his friends. “Isn’t this fun?” he asks, letting our a high-pitched giggle. Read...
New York Magazine Bess Myerson does not keep a near pocketbook. She’s dumping the contents of her purse onto a couch, and little scraps of paper-quotations she’s scribbled from books-are everywhere. Read...
New York Magazine It was the year of the pale fall, as Perry Ellis called his 1986 collection, and the showroom was packed with fashion writers and retailers. Many knew each other, and they all knew Ellis. Read...
New York Magazine When Becky London was growing up in Philadelphia, she dreamed of becoming an actress and moving to New York. “I wanted to have a place like Marlo Thomas had in That Girl,” says London, 27. “I knew I’d have to struggle, and...
Bursting with fresh revelations, Wide Awake is a mesmerizing exegesis on sleep and its discontents, written with wit, charm, and, above all, wisdom born of Morrisroe’s triumphant struggle with insomnia.
A. Roger Ekirchauthor of At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past
