Sylvia Wolf has been director of the Henry Art Gallery for four weeks now, and already we have a few indications of what she's made of. First, Wolf's exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe's Polaroids—documenting for the first time the young photographer's first lens love—opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art May 3. This morning, Karen Rosenberg of the New York Times wrote about the show in the context both of Mapplethorpe and the endangered camera. "The ...

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