The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition: Photographs and Mannerist Prints. This exhibition will explore the relationship between the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe and classical art, in particular through 16th century Flemish Mannerist engravings. Among the first collaborations between the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, the project is co-organized by Germano Celant, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, and Arkady Ippolitov, Curator of Italian Prints at the Hermitage. The exhibition premiered at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin from July 24 to October 17, 2004, subsequently traveling to the Hermitage and then the Moscow... MORE