http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-2048-robert-mapplethorpe/topic-rss.do Robert Mapplethorpe RSS feed http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/review-23756369-shocking-sensual-symbolism-from-robert-mapplethorpe.do Robert Mapplethorpe's exhibition mixes surprisingly tender moments with the sensual erotic and hardcore. 2009-10-13T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23709800-patti-smiths-poems-sap-the-spirit.do In full poet mode, Patti Smith adapted favourite songs including Piss Factory and People Have The Power. 2009-06-18T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23689407-helmut-newtons-double-standards-are-our-own.do The work of Helmut Newton, on show from Thursday at Hamiltons gallery, remains what could best be euphemistically termed, right on the edge 2009-05-12T07:42:18Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/review-23487653-street-cred-on-camera.do Street & Studio represents the contradictions within photography, where even a lavatory is a studio and we are all photographers and models. 2008-05-26T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/events/article-23475894-all-eyes-on-east-end-film-festival-2008.do Screening large independent releases and providing a platform for new talent, the East End Film Festival is proud of its diversity. Our guide fills you in on the not to be missed events. 2008-04-08T15:52:35Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23443107-100m-art-gift-is-the-greatest-since-the-tate-was-founded.do London dealer Anthony d'Offay has sold art worth more than £125 million to the nation for the £26.5 million it originally cost him 2008-02-27T10:18:21Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/review-23418131-sexy-art-that-fails-to-titillate.do The Seduced exhibition at the Barbican may sound like a right goer, but prepare to be disappointed, says Nick Curtis. 2007-10-24T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/review-23416411-pornography-for-the-prude.do It is daft to restrict the Barbican's new exhibition, Seduced, to over-18s, says Brian Sewell. 2007-10-11T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/article-23416080-barbican-show-is-posing-a-most-seductive-question.do The Barbican has insisted their Seduced exhibition, a new survey of 2,000 years of sex in art, is a most serious academic show. 2007-10-10T11:54:52Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23374443-details/%C2%A335%2C000+for+snap+of+an+old+Stone/article.do A photograph of Keith Richards is expected to make up to £35,000 when it goes under the hammer. 2006-11-14T11:47:32Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/review-23372748-boys-on-film.do The unique, two-decade story of the Pet Shop Boys is told at the National Portrait Gallery and the exhibition is bizarre, ironic, silly, and always detached. 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/home/article-23366862-take-me-out.do Here's our round-up of the weekend's events, including a bonfire of the vanities, an exhibitions of iconic Patti Smith snaps and the novel opening of a new gastropub-cum-disco... 2006-09-14T14:32:55Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/review-23366639-shock-tactics-falter.do Mapplethorpe's technically brilliant and coolly beautiful photographs took homoerotica out of the sex shop and into the art gallery. This show, however, doesn't show him in the greatest light. 2006-09-11T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23366609-punk-poet-finds-her-valentine.do Odd couple Patti Smith and Kevin Shields clicked when they improvised at last year's Meltdown festival. Now they are back to record their collaboration in front of a live audience. 2006-09-11T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/article-23366481-critics-choice-rock.do Patti Smith and Kevin Shields, of My Bloody Valentine and Primal Scream, are rekindling the partnership formed at the Meltdown festival last year, in order to record their music live on stage. 2006-09-11T11:05:04Z