Ken Moody and Robert Sherman
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Where is “Ken Moody and Robert Sherman” now? Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Not on view at present. Checked September 25, 2026.
New York, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- 97.103.3
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- Whitney Museum of American Art
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In the life of Robert Mapplethorpe
The whole life1982
A relationship with Jack Walls
An on-off relationship begins with Jack Walls, a clerk-typist from Chicago who becomes his muse; it is marred by arguments over money and drug use, and in 1984 Mapplethorpe evicts Walls from his Bleecker Street apartment after accusing him of stealing, but later reconciles with him and promotes his career, believing he could become the “new Ben Vereen”.
19 June 1982 – 28 September 1982
Exhibition: documenta 7
1983
Mapplethorpe and Warhol photograph each other
In 1983 Mapplethorpe and Andy Warhol photograph one another, and Warhol makes a silkscreen portrait of Mapplethorpe; in 1986 Mapplethorpe photographs Warhol again.
1984
Alexandra Knaust becomes his agent in London
Mapplethorpe appoints Alexandra Knaust, whom he had met in the early 1980s while she worked for the photographer Gilles Larrain, as his agent in London, where she works to promote his career; she will become an important figure in his later life.
1986
“Black Males” and “The Black Book”: an exhibition and a controversy
The solo exhibition “Black Males” and the accompanying book “The Black Book” (St. Martin’s Press) stir controversy over their erotic depictions of Black men, which critics call exploitative; Mapplethorpe states that he had been sexually involved with “at least 75 percent” of the men featured.
September 1986
Pneumonia and an AIDS diagnosis
Gravely ill with pneumonia, Mapplethorpe agrees at the urging of his friend Dimitri Levas to enter Beth Israel Hospital — a bronchoscopy confirms AIDS-related Pneumocystis pneumonia; his brother Edward, the only family member who knows of the diagnosis, returns to help, and Jack Walls, back from Los Angeles, moves in with him again.
