New York Times

Robert Mapplethorpe, left, at one of his exhibitions with Rene Ricard in 1977. Gerard Malanga

“I’ve never worked a day in my life,” Rene Ricard, then 32, wrote in an essay for The New York Times Op-Ed page in 1978. “If I did it would probably ruin my career, which at the moment is something of a cross between a butterfly and a lap dog.”.. . . READ MORE