Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect medium is being exhibited at the Art Gallery of NSW from October 28 to March 4. With A collection of over 200 works Mapplethorpe captured and shaped an era with portraits that immortalised the cultural idols of the 1970s and 1980s, including lifelong muse Patti Smith.

The exhibition explores the work of one of the most influential visual artists of late 20th-century America and presents an extraordinary selection of his photographs from floral still lifes and rare colour photographs to portraits, figure studies and his controversial erotic imagery that charted his involvement in New York’s gay scene.

If you want to buy tickets to the exhibition head to the Art Gallery of NSW website.

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