The archive is now available to researchers. It spans the artist’s career from his student days at Pratt Institute in the 1960s through his more well-known photographs from the 1980s. The archive includes sculpture and assemblages, collages, cut-outs, early drawings and paintings, Polaroids, and examples of large-format photographic prints of flowers, portraits, nudes, and sadomasochistic subjects.
Robert Mapplethorpe Papers and Photographs Archive
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Victorian Christmas
Christmas Holiday display of our finest antiques, Santa Clauses, angels, choir boys, and village scenes that depict Dickens’s Victorian Christmas. Our Christmas tree will be decorated with our collection of antique ornaments and there will be a display of vintage Christmas cards.
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Compton College Farmers’ Market
The Compton College Farmers’ Market hosts regional farmers like JM Produce, C&L Farms, and Angelo Ranch. It also features local Compton and South LA-based food vendors like Pucker Up Lemonade, Kathy’s Kitchen, Fun Time Kettle Corn, and more!
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Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival
Theater under the stars! This summer the fully staged productions of Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare) and Doctor Faustus ( Marlowe) is presented the stellar classical actors of Independent Shakespeare Co. Broadway World says “ISC delivers a rousing good time whenever they strut their stuff!” Pack a picnic, grab your friends and family by the hand and meet us in the iconic Old Zoo in Griffith Park. Performances are free and open to the public! Show times: Love’s Labour’s Lost Wednesdays through Sundays, from…
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Legendary Bingo
This is Los Angeles’s most popular and longest-running weekly charity event. In April 1998, Legendary Bingo served up its first set of balls at Stonewall Gourmet Coffee in West Hollywood as a fundraising event for AIDS Project Los Angeles. A few months later, the evening began to benefit a different charity each week, and the event became a “standing room only” sensation. Legendary Bingo has raised over 8 million dollars for local and national charities and the arts. One ball…
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Shakespeare by the Sea – As You Like It and Julius Ceasar
This summer, Shakespeare by the Sea will transport audiences from the lush Forest of Arden to the intrigue of Ancient Rome with two of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. As You Like It Banished from home, Rosalind flees to the Forest of Arden with friends, discovering freedom, love, and her truest self in Shakespeare’s uplifting comedy of transformation and new beginnings. Julius Caesar Loyalties are tested in Shakespeare’s exploration of the definition of honor, the agony of decision, and the…