Performance
Though its music, and use of Mapplethorpe’s photographs and texts by Essex Hemphill and Patti Smith were impressive in their own rights, the performance Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) ultimately appeared cheap, forced, and self-congratulatory.
Interview
In her latest book, the iconic writer and musician examines belief, friendship, mentorship, and what drives her to make art.
Books
Smith’s new memoir “records time backwards and forwards” as she skips from moment to moment across the past forty years of her life.
Interview
Punk is 40 years old, believe it or not. Now that it’s middle-aged, has punk become passé? Have the few protagonists who survived from the excesses of the era become flabby and bland? No, not necessarily — judging by punk icon Richard Hell, once known as the king of the Lower East Side.
Art
Tomorrow, Patti Smith will turn 66. The day before yesterday, on the 27th, her longtime guitarist Lenny Kaye reached the same age. “We’re three days apart,” Smith announced last week in the atrium of the Museum of Modern Art at her “walk-in” concert celebrating the birthday of the French writer Jean
Music
This month, reviews of Curumin, Tyga, Rye Rye, Waka Flocka Flame, Clams Casino, Patti Smith, The Gaslight Anthem and A Place To Bury Strangers.
Interview
From artist David Wojnarowicz's glasses to advertisements for the Pyramid Club in the zine the East Village Eye, signs from Bronx nonprofit Fashion Moda to flyers advertising performances by punk and No Wave legends Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch and Patti Smith, the Fales Library and Special Collections
Art
The last time I wrote about the artist, poet, musician and performance artist (i.e. woman of many trades) Patti Smith was to complain about the fact that I’d never heard of her. My rant had something to do with the fact that I spent five years at two different art schools and her name never came up
Art
On December 19th of last year, Patti Smith and Michael Stipe gave a “walk-in performance” in the atrium of the Museum of Modern Art to celebrate the centennial of Jean Genet — poet, playwright, novelist, radical leftist, hustler and thief. It was also the final day of the uprising in Sidi Bouzid, Tu
News
After the New York Mayor's office assured the world via Twitter that the Occupy Wall Street library was "safely stored," it has become apparent that the statement was a half-truth at best.
Art
Thirty-five years after the release of The Ramones' debut album, a punk attitude has erupted on 23rd Street in the heart of Chelsea during the normally bleak and deserted summer gallery months with the Steven Kasher Gallery's "Rude and Reckless: Punk/Post-Punk Graphics, 1976-1982" and the I-20 Galle
News
Fighting the perception that all Catholics are as conservative as those espoused in William Donohue's Catholic League call for the Smithsonian to remove David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly” from Hide/Seek, Catholics United has begun a petition calling for closer scrutiny Donohue's organization.