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MAPPLETHORPE TUESDAYS

In conjunction with the exhibition IMPLICIT TENSIONS—MAPPLETHORPE NOW, the Guggenheim presents a series of Robert Mapplethorpe screenings every Tuesday in February, beginning with a documentary featuring Mapplethorpe’s patron and lover Sam Wagstaff.

BLACK WHITE + GRAY—A PORTRAIT OF SAM WAGSTAFF AND ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE

Tuesday, February 5, at 6 pm.

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE, NO. 61 FROM THE SERIES ART/NEW YORK

Tuesday, February 12, at 6 pm.

MAPPLETHORPE—LOOK AT THE PICTURES

Tuesday, February 19 and 26, at 6 pm

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

1071 Fifth Avenue (at 88th Street), New York City.

From top: Norman Seeff photograph of Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe; Marcus Leatherdale photograph of Mapplethorpe; Sam Wagstaff and Mapplethorpe, portrait by Francesco Scavullo, image courtesy of Sean Byrnes, the Scavullo Foundation, and the Motion Picture Group, Inc., Philadelphia.

PATHWAY TO PARIS CONCERT

Pathway to Paris—founded in 2014 by Jesse Paris Smith and Rebecca Foon—is committed to raising consciousness surrounding the urgency of climate action and offers solutions to turning the Paris Agreement into action.

Tickets are now on sale for PATHWAY TO PARIS LOS ANGELES, a benefit concert featuring Patti Smith, Karen O, Lucinda WilliamsFlea, Dhani Harrison, Eric Burdon, and writer-environmentalist Bill McKibben.

 

PATHWAY TO PARIS LOS ANGELES

Sunday, September 16, at 7 pm.

Theatre at Ace Hotel, 929 South Broadway, downtown Los Angeles.

Below: Patti Smith.

PATTI SMITH ON GENET

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“He is the transparent observer reclaiming the suffering and exhilaration of his own follies, trials, and evolution. There are no masks; there are veils. He does not retreat; he extracts the noble of the ignoble. The sullied thug advances into the night as a coquette in tattered tulle sewn with scattered spangles, bits of tin caught in the lamplight transposing as glittering stars.”*

A new edition of THE THIEF’S JOURNAL by Jean Genet features an introduction by Patti Smith.

See: theparisreview.org/holy-disobedience-on-jean-genets-the-thiefs-journal

* “Holy Disobedience: An Introduction to the New Edition,” by Patti Smith, copyright © 2018 by Patti Smith.

Excerpted from THE THIEF’S JOURNAL, by Jean Genet, copyright © 1964 by Grove Press. Reprinted with the permission of Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, Inc. All rights reserved.

Top: Grove, Atlantic’s new edition of Jean Genet, The Thief’s Journal.

Above: Covering the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Image credit: Esquire.

Bottom: Genet by Brassaï. © Estate Brassaï–RMN.

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Hoping Roundhouse 2

This year’s Festival of Voice in Cardiff features AN EVENING WITH PATTI SMITH WITH LENNY KAYE AND TONY SHANAHAN.

Last week in London, Smith played at the Hoping Foundation benefit Hoping for Palestine—A Benefit Concert for Palestinian Refugee Children.

 

PATTI SMITH, Tuesday, June 12, at 8 pm.

DONALD GORDON THEATRE, Wales Millennium Centre, Bute Place, Cardiff.

Tickets: tickets.festivalofvoice.wales

Festival program: festivalofvoice.wales/Programme

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Patti Smith, “People Have the Power.”

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DUNCAN HANNAH’S DIARIES

A New York Dolls costume party at the Waldorf, a Roxy Music concert at the old Academy of Music and after-party in Larry Rivers’ loft, Lou Reed’s scatological proposals in Max’s back room… It was all part of artist Duncan Hannah’s young New York life in the early 1970s.

Naturally, he kept a diary:

“Patti Smith told me she put me in a poem. She started a week’s residency [in The Paradise Room] at Reno Sweeney. I go every night and sit at the bar nursing a beer, watching it on the closed-circuit TV, because I can’t afford the cover charge. One night I had the misfortune to be joined by Bette Midler, who said through mouthfuls of food, ‘Gawd, what is this? Who does she think she is? Bob Dylan? Laura Nyro? Lawrence Ferlinghetti? This stuff went out of style in the ’50s!’

“Unable to contain myself, I turned to her and said, ‘Well, you went out in the forties, and I wish you’d stayed there’…

“Television play every night at a biker bar on Bleecker and [the Bowery], called CBGB. The decor is neon beer signs and giant blowups from bygone theatricals… Television have only one set’s worth of songs, so their second set is the same as the first. Only a couple dozen people show up, but there’s a real rough excitement to this band…

“Reading about alcoholism in Time magazine. I fit the profile. I am unable to choose whether I drink or not, and if I do, I’m unable to stop…”

 

From Duncan Hannah, “Diaries, 1973–1974,” excerpt from The Paris Review 223 (Winter 2017): 173–204.

A more complete selection of Hannah’s diaries will be published in spring, 2018 as 20th-Century Boy—Notebooks of the Seventies (Knopf).

See: John Leland, “From CBGB to the Galleries of the Met,” New York Times, May 6, 2016:

nytimes.com/duncan-hannah

Television singer-songwriter-guitarist Tom Verlaine and Patti Smith in the early 1970s, New York City.

(Verlaine’s childhood friend Richard Hell—also in Hannah’s diaries—was the band’s bassist, but left before they recorded their first album.)

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