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Working with a paper magnate (and without a budget), he helped put together what later became the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s celebrated photography collection.

Pierre Apraxine, a courtly self-taught connoisseur of photography who helped build one of the greatest private holdings of pictures, the Gilman Paper

Exhibition opening Saturday takes a serious look at the role that spiritualists have played in American art.

In the late ‘70s, Mapplethorpe’s sex pictures exploded onto the New York art scene. Sexually explicit, provocative and audacious – his photographs had the power to shock, seduce, and appal in equal doses. He was adorning the walls of respectable NY art galleries with content most hadn’t seen before – pornographic images styled with a classical guise. His sex pictures depicted re-enactments of sadomasochist sex acts with male models he had met in underground gay clubs, such as Mineshaft...