Mapplethorpe Foundation blocks Roy Cohn portrait from biography cover over Trump reaction concerns

The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation refused to license a 1981 Mapplethorpe portrait of Roy Cohn for an upcoming biography's cover, the New York Times reported on 26 August 2026. The Foundation cited concerns about how Donald Trump — Cohn's former protégé — might react. The print remains on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum and LACMA.