Patti Smith

The DIA says Smith began taking 35-millimeter photos in 1968 as components for collages and took up the serious use of the Polaroid Land Camera in 1995. Read More

"Here's my favorite painting in the museum," says Patti Smith, bringing a hand up to her chest, as if the sight of her old friend caused her heart to skip a beat. Read More

The Detroit Institute of Arts hosts the exhibition Patti Smith: Camera Solo, which comprises more than 60 black-and-white gelatin silver prints taken with her vintage Polaroid camera. Read More

Banga , Patti Smith's first LP in eight years, shows up June 5 via by way of Columbia, and NPR's All Songs Considered is now pointing to a stream of Tom Verlaine-featuring album cut "Fuji-San." A remembrance of March 2011's Tohoku, Japan, earthquake and tsunami, the song starts primal and emerges as something steady and passionate. Read More

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"Perfection has never been my beat," said Patti Smith, the rocker, writer, artist and legend of the downtown New York City arts scene who later made her home near Detroit. Read More

In 1967, 20-year-old Patti Smith moved to New York and met her "soul mate," Robert Mapplethorpe — a then-aspiring and since-celebrated photographer who quickly become her lover. Read More

Detroit looms large in Patti Smith's cosmology. Read More

Remember when Patti Smith used to be considered dangerous? Read More

Ten months after the death of Amy Winehouse , the singer's family has put her London home up for sale at $4.2 million. Read More