Patti Smith Remembers Life With Mapplethorpe The iconic rock singer has written a book called Just Kids about her friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The two met when they were young ...

“Nobody sees as we do, Patti,” Mapplethorpe would say. Smith offers new insights into the former Catholic altar boy, who could be sweet and tender, and was as driven to make it as an artist as ...

First Mapplethorpe-only exhibit for North America %27The Coral Sea%27 runs through November Mapplethorpe%27s confidence in her %27really changed my life.%27 CINCINNATI -- In Just Kids, Patti Smith ...

Robert Mapplethorpe’s photo of Patti Smith on the sleeve of Horses is considered one of music’s best. But the story of their friendship between the two is more beautiful, writes Stephen ...

When Patti Smith got off the bus in the Port Authority in 1967, all she had were some art supplies and a book of poems. ... Smith and Mapplethorpe would set out on separate paths.

As the singer-songwriter Patti Smith shared one of two special April 30 shows at the Getty Center in Los Angeles devoted to her late friend Robert Mapplethorpe, there’s a 19th century ...

Mapplethorpe died March 9, 1989, one of the most controversial and powerful artists of his age. Smith's funny and pretentious, wonderful and wide-eyed "Just Kids" is their story.

Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids, just nominated for a National Book Award, describes her path of artistic self discovery and her relationship with the provocative photographer, Robert Mapplethorpe.

Marianne Rendón will star as Patti Smith, but the performer and author declined to lend her support to the film, which begins shooting July 11 in New York. A singer, poet, and influential member ...

Off-Ramp cultural correspondent Marc Haefele reviews "An Evening with Patti Smith" at The Getty Museum, staged in connection with retrospectives of the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe — with ...

In Patti Smith’s memoir “Just Kids,” she recounts the Brooklyn apartment she and Robert Mapplethorpe called home. The two eager-yet-struggling creative types moved into a Clinton Hill ...

NEW YORK — On a recent afternoon, Patti Smith pushed open the glass doors of the Chelsea Hotel and stepped into her past. When she lived in the fabled hotel in 1969 and ’70, she used to sit on ...