In the 1983 portrait of writer Kathy Acker, her face is entirely covered by her hands, while her bare arms and breasts pop in contrast to her black pants. Mapplethorpe took many self-portraits ...

The exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery, “Mickalene Thomas/Portrait of an Unlikely Space,” which opened on Sept. 8 and runs through Jan. 7, 2024, centers on a collection of small-scale ...