The Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary avant-garde performance art and experimental art institution located at 512 West 19th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in the Chelsea neighbor
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Robert Mapplethorpe
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Robert Michael Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes,
The Kitchen (art institution)
…and singers. Completed and premiered in 1976, the piece became Music for 18 Musicians, now regarded as one of the composer's landmark works. In 1977, Robert Mapplethorpe presented one of his first photography exhibitions entitled Erotic Photos at The Kitchen. In 1978, The Kitchen began its dance programming by establishing…
Self-Portrait, 1980
Mapplethorpe's former romantic partner and lifelong friend Patti Smith
Mapplethorpe's studio at 24 Bond Street in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, which he later used as a darkroom.