{"id":935,"date":"2009-08-19T19:43:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T02:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/08\/robert_mapplethorpe_-_always_h\/"},"modified":"2009-08-19T19:43:32","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T02:43:32","slug":"robert_mapplethorpe_-_always_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/08\/robert_mapplethorpe_-_always_h.html","title":{"rendered":"Robert Mapplethorpe &#8211; always himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mapplethorpe once called photography a &#8220;perfect way to make a sculpture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mappleappolo.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/mappleappolo.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"392\" height=\"394\" \/><\/span>(<a href=\"http:\/\/ultraorange.net\/2008\/04\/14\/robert-mapplethorpe-apollo-1988\/\"><i>Apollo<\/i><\/a>, 1988)<\/p>\n<p>He was always about perfection. The thing about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryart.org\/exhibitions\/upcoming\/1106\"><i>Polaroids: Mapplethorpe<\/i><\/a>, opening Oct. 24 at the Henry, is that he found it early and on the fly. Curated by Henry director Sylvia Wolf, it opened last year at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitney.org\/www\/exhibition\/mapplethorpe.jsp\">Whitney<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mapplethorpe once called photography a &#8220;perfect way to make a sculpture.&#8221; (Apollo, 1988) He was always about perfection. The thing about Polaroids: Mapplethorpe, opening Oct. 24 at the Henry, is that he found it early and on the fly. Curated by Henry director Sylvia Wolf, it opened last year at the Whitney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}