Half a century ago, the famed New York venue run by a former marine and folk singer was ground zero for the punk and new wave scenes. Now the bands who played there are being celebrated on a 101-track ...

Getting old is not treated with kid gloves in Richard Avedon: Immortal — Portraits of Aging, 1951-2004, a new exhibition of the famed American photographer’s work at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts ...

“I was baptized in Logan Square in 1947,” Patti Smith said. On November 18, the Chicago stop of Smith’s Horses tour, the night felt much like a gathering around a campfire, as the audience listened to ...

The "godmother of punk" brought her book tour a close in New Haven on Tuesday night with readings of selections from her latest memoir as well as stripped-down performances of some of her most popular ...

A common practice among legacy artists these days is anniversary tours, and Patti Smith brought the Horses 50th anniversary tour to Washington, D.C.’s Anthem on Black Friday. This was the penultimate ...

Check out this exclusive, singular "Frankenstein" video Q&A with Smith and the director and star of Netflix's Oscar contender. Guillermo del Toro: I was weird. I was extremely thin. I’m not joking. I ...

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Of all the insights revealed in Patti Smith’s new memoir, “Bread of Angels,” none is so immersive as Smith’s description of the writing room she cultivated in the 1980s, during a period removed from ...

Born coughing, Patti Smith was a sickly kid. As she writes in her new memoir, “Bread of Angels,” “Mine was a Proustian childhood, one of intermittent quarantine and convalescence.” Her family moved ...

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Has there ever been a gutsier opening salvo in rock n’ roll? That’s how Patti Smith began her show Monday night at the Chicago Theatre, the line coming out slow and sinewy, and it’s how she started ...

As Patti Smith walked back onto the stage for her encore on Saturday, Nov. 15, she smiled and waved to the cheering crowds on all four sides of the Walt Disney Concert Hall. “I don’t usually have the ...