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| Golden Temple, Kyoto (as published in M Train) |
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| Remains of boardwalk (as published in M Train) |
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| Desert tracks, Namibia (as published in M Train) |
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| Bedroom dresser - with Fonteyn’s ballet slippers (as published in M Train) |
2016
Eighteen Stations featured
photographs included in the book M Train, along with works from Patti Smith
speaking to art and literature’s
potential to offer hope and consolation.
(March 3 – April 16, 2016 at Robert Miller Gallery,
New York City)
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| photo of Café 'Ino, NYC |
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| photo of Schiller's table, Jena |
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| Eighteen Stations (installation view) |
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| photo of Patti Smith at William Burrough's graveside, by Lenny Kaye |
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| photos of Saint Thomas à Becket Church and Sylvia Plath's grave |
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Frida Kahlo’s crutches, Casa Azul, Coyoacán
Frida Kahlo’s bed
Frida Kahlo’s medicine bottles
Roberto Bolaño’s chair, Blanes, Spain
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| Kita-Kamakura Station, winter (Japan) |
2014
Rockaway! a
free public arts festival celebrating the reopening of Fort Tilden and the ongoing
recovery of the Rockaway Peninsula after Hurricane Sandy, included works by
several artists, including the following by Rockaway resident, Patti Smith: a
large-scale installation, photography and the outdoor installation called The Resilience of the Dreamer.
(June 29 – September 1, 2014 at Fort Tilden and Rockaway
Beach, New York)
Online brochure description: “Having witnessed personal belongings of Rockaway residents being destroyed during Sandy, Patti Smith will install a gilded four-post bed with pure white linens in a long-abandoned building that lacks windows and parts of its roof. The bed will wear down physically, yet remain in place, a symbol of courage and resilience.
Online brochure description: “Having witnessed personal belongings of Rockaway residents being destroyed during Sandy, Patti Smith will install a gilded four-post bed with pure white linens in a long-abandoned building that lacks windows and parts of its roof. The bed will wear down physically, yet remain in place, a symbol of courage and resilience.
An exhibition of photographs taken
by Patti Smith over the last several years focuses on objects that were dear to
their owners: Robert Mapplethorpe’s slippers, Robert Graves's hat,
Virginia Woolf’s bed, Frida Kahlo’s corset, and William
Burroughs's bandana… The adjoining gallery is dedicated to
Walt Whitman and includes books of his poetry that visitors are invited to
read. Patti Smith has also placed five granite stones engraved with verses from
Whitman’s poetry along the trails of Fort Tilden to mark the far ends of this
scenic urban park on the ocean”
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| Front cover of the book Camera Solo |
From the exhibition of photographs:
http://www.ago.net/patti-smith-camera-solo#
2013
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| Guardian angel, Dorotheenstadt Cemetery (statue detail, Berlin) |
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| "the city's oldest water tower" Berlin |
2012
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Frida Kahlo’s corset
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| Frida Kahlo’s crutches, Casa Azul, Coyoacán |
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Frida Kahlo’s medicine bottles
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2011
9.11 BABELOGUE
(Sep 7 – Dec 7, 2011 at The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art
Gallery at Hunter College, New York)
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exhibition catalogue
Text by Patti Smith and Michelle
Yun
Illustrations by Patti Smith
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GROUND ZERO AND
GOLD POURED FORTH – 2002 (silkscreen, colored pencil, graphite, and acrylic
paint on nineteenth-century handmade paper, 39 x 57 cm approx)
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| SOUTH TOWER GOLD (MONSTER) silkscreen |
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THE KINGDOM OF
GOD IS WITHIN YOU 504
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SOUTH TOWER THE GEMS
OF TRAGEDY
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PLANE FOLDED FLIGHT 11, 175 - 2002
(pencil on handmade paper, folded as
schematic)
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2009
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Rimbaud’s Litter
– wood, Italian fishing net and unique poetry
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| St Margarita, Charles Bridge, Prague |
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| Dylan Thomas's grave, Laugharne, Wales |
2008
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| Cross by the Sea, Asbury Park, New Jersey |
"I like to feel the skin of canvas: I know it’s not right to
touch paintings when you go to museums; first time I got yelled at, I was a
teenager, touching a Modigliani - I just had
to feel the texture, the way the paint…"
'Dream of Life' (2008 DVD)
2007
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| Walt Whitman’s Tomb, Camden, New Jersey |
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| My Father's Cup |
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| (selfie NYC) |
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Strange Messenger:
The Work of Patti Smith by David Greenberg and John W. Smith
(Sep 28, 2002 – Jan 5, 2003 at The Andy Warhol Museum,
Pittsburgh)
exhibition catalogue published by The Andy Warhol Museum
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Orchid -
graphite and coloured pencil on paper (21 x 28 cm approx)
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| Tibetan Bowl |
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BIRD HEAD
The Arabs say: Bird has 52 properties
26 saintly 26 satanic.
They cover + wing like angels
Then go defile the door of the mosque
with their FLYING BIRD SHIT
(March 73)
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The first issues of Todd
Rundgren's 1973 LP A Wizard, A
True Star included Patti Smith’s ‘Band-Aid
poem.’ The words were written on what looked like a pink band-aid, the artwork
was approximately 3 inches by 12 inches. In green, Patti had written a synopsis
of Todd’s album. In red ink, was a drawing of a woman behind a rock and some
added words.
star fever
They can not harm me
They can not harm me
They can only
burn out my eyes
beat my limbs
black and blue
legs cant run
hands cant play
face cant sing
cant sing cant say
They can not harm me
They can only
turn in my eyes
rip out my teeth
spit pure ivory
carve my face like a clock
alarm me clock clock me
bleed me scape goat me
chain me to a rock me
rock me rock me
clever as a fox me
brand a star on/my left shoulder
a star on my left
clever as a fox
my spirit lights
behind the boulder
holding to my name forever
Knowing I'll go on forever
Spirit laughing free as water
in a ring of fire
with its hair aflame
They can not harm me
They can only
burn out my eyes
beat my limbs
black and blue
legs cant run
hands cant play
face cant sing
cant sing cant say
They can not harm me
They can only
turn in my eyes
rip out my teeth
spit pure ivory
carve my face like a clock
alarm me clock clock me
bleed me scape goat me
chain me to a rock me
rock me rock me
clever as a fox me
brand a star on/my left shoulder
a star on my left
clever as a fox
my spirit lights
behind the boulder
holding to my name forever
Knowing I'll go on forever
Spirit laughing free as water
in a ring of fire
with its hair aflame
revenge is golden. silence is shit.
His wing
His winghis lightning
boulder
star
His wing
aflame
When Todd’s album was released, Patti wrote a review in
Creem magazine. She entitled her piece “Todd's electric exploitation: rock and
roll for the skull.”
In 1979, Todd produced the Patti Smith Group’s album
Wave.
1978
Song and lyrics 'Privilege (Set Me Free)'
lyrics to the improvised ‘Babelogue’ + ‘Rock’N’Roll
Nigger’ (with photos)
