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President Johnson signs the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act, establishing the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities
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The couple are artistically and romantically involved. (EXACT DATES OF COHABITATION UNKNOWN)
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Mapplethorpe initially pursued a degree in graphic arts at Pratt in Brooklyn. (DATE UNKNOWN)
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Smith uses Mapplethorpe's photograph for the album cover. Mapplethorpe took this photo in the light of a Greenwhich Village penthouse.
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"Black Book" presents a provocative photographic study of black men that displays Mapplethorpe's sculptural use of light.
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HIV claims the photographer's life; he spent his last months with Patti Smith.
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D'Amato rips up the catalog containing Andre Serrano's "Piss Christ" on the Senate floor.
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In an attempt to comply with the NEA's funding appropriations, the Corcoran Gallery of Washington D.C. cancels Mapplethorpe's traveling solo exhibition. At the end of June, the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, chaired by representative Yates, issues a bill recommending a $171.4 million 1990 appropriation, $2.4 million more than the current year. This bill also includes an amendment that requires subgrantors to receive final approval from the NEA before awarding grants to subgranteees.
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President Bush places Frohnmayer at the helm of the NEA.
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Frohnmayer pulls a $10,000 grant from the Artists Space show, a exhibition whose catalogue features an essay by David Wojnarowicz.
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"WAOV" opens at Artists Space in New York.
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Hancock and Rohrabacher hold a press conference, calling for the elimination of the NEA. This media session was held in conjunction with other conservative lobbyist: Eagle Forum, Concerned Women for America and the Traditional Values coaltion.
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"The Perfect Moment" opens in Cincinnati. Museum director Dennis Barrie is indicted for pandering obscenity and "illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material.''
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The National Council on the Arts denies Pennsylvania's ICA two $40,000 grants.
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David Gergen attacks Finley, Hughes, Miller, and Fleck in US News in an article notable for its many factual errors called "Who Should Pay for Porn?"
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Finley, Hughes, Miller, and Fleck file suit against the NEA and Frohnmayer, charging that their grants were denied for political reasons.
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Fohnmayer ends his tenure at the arts association
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111 works from Michelangelo, Warhol, Man Ray and Brice Warden are placed in dialogue with each other.
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The two California art institutions jointly own over 2,000 works of art -- polaroids, gelatin prints, etc.-- from Mapplethorpe's estate. According to Michael Ward Stout, director of the artist's foundation, the Mapplethorpe acquisition carries a value of over $30 million.
