Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe may have been kindred spirits, but the moment he crossed over to the other side couldn't ...

“M Train” opens inside a dream, as Smith plunges the reader into her psyche without explanation or context. A mysterious ...

Lynn Goldsmith has worked on many projects. She was on the Elektra Records staff, directed documentaries, was the manager of ...

Patti Smith is doing well, contrary to the "exaggerated" reports about her health scare after a stage mishap in Brazil.

Patti Smith writes of Arthur Rimbaud like a God, because he is one to her. As a homage to her ultimate literary idol, it sounds like a hymn.

Punk poet Patti Smith once wrote, “We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another,” in reference to her relationship with the late artist Robert Mapplethorpe ...

Patti Smith helped create the punk movement but ... There she began a partnership with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who was both her first creative collaborator and first love; he would ...