Photographer Brian English was studio assistant to Robert Mapplethorpe from 1986 until Mapplethorpe's death in 1989. 

From the Creative Minds program "Portraying an Era: Robert Mapplethorpe," at the San Jose Museum of Art, May 19, 2011

See Robert Mapplethorpe: Portraits at the San Jose Museum of Art through June 5, 2011

The exhibition was organized by the Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, with the assistance of guest curator Gordon Baldwin. The exhibition is sponsored in part by the Helene and Lou Galen Exhibition Fund and the Faye and Herman Sarkowsky Exhibition Fund.

Sponsored by the Museum Store Guild.