Patti Smith's "Dancing Barefoot" begins with a description of a mystical woman: "She is benediction / She is addicted to thee / She is the root connection / She is connecting with he." The song was ...

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Patricia Lee Smith was born in Chicago in 1946, raised in New Jersey, and in 1967 moved to New York City, where she would become a legend of the ’70s punk scene and influence generations of ...

In 1979, Patti Smith, at the peak of her outsider punk fame, went on the ABC television show “Kids Are People Too”—the viewership was made up almost entirely of tweens—and, given the choice of any ...

Nearly 40 years after Mapplethorpe’s death, Smith and Davis haven’t forgotten anything about their lives in New York during the 1970s and beyond. For the first time, all three artists’ works are being ...