Robert Mapplethorpe Art, Archive Bound for L.A.

Sorry New York, but Los Angeles is the new home of all things Mapplethorpe. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the J. Paul Getty Trust have jointly acquired art and archival materials by or associated with Robert Mapplethorpe, who died in 1989 at the age of 42. Cash from the David Geffen Foundation and the Getty supplemented a gift from the Mapplethorpe Foundation that accounts for most of the acquisition (valued at $30 million or so).