Features
Monday, January 24 2011
The Best Non-Fiction of 2010
PopMatters' writers (a margin-friendly, iconoclastic bunch, for the most part) cast their nets far beyond the world of culture-production to capture some of the best non-fiction books published in 2010.
Columns
Wednesday, February 23 2011
In the Oft-Reviled Genre of Memoirs, Here are Some Memoirs to Love
A subgenre has emerged that should placate memoirphobes and please memoirfiles: the artist-teacher memoir.
Reviews
Thursday, June 7 2012
Patti Smith: Banga
It’s hard to review something by as consummate an artist as Patti Smith without just listing all the similies for "outstanding".
Friday, December 16 2011
Words of Love: Patti Smith’s Ode to Georgia O’Keeffe
While Smith’s performance may have felt off-the-cuff, she couldn’t have been more in her leanin’-on-the-parkin’-meter element.
Friday, September 9 2011
Patti Smith: Outside Society
All hail Patti Smith, the postmodern beat queen who looks back at what she’s done and finds a pattern -- where excess in all things is fine if succeeded by its opposite.
Thursday, August 4 2011
Poet, Punk and Shaman: 'Dancing Barefoot: The Patti Smith Story'
If you gave poet and mystic William Blake access to some electric guitars, the result would have sounded a lot like Patti Smith. Dave Thompson tells this story with a special focus on the height of her career in the '70s.
Thursday, July 10 2008
Patti Smith & Kevin Shields: The Coral Sea
A haunting tribute to the late Robert Mapplethorpe, The Coral Sea is a monumental accomplishment in the career of one of America's truly outstanding artists.
Blogs
Friday, February 4 2011
Counterbalance No. 19: Patti Smith’s 'Horses'
One of the most critically-acclaimed debuts in rock history, Patti Smith’s Horses is a whirlwind of poetry and proto-punk rock. Counterbalance takes Horses for a ride -- go Rimbaud and go Johnny go!
Tuesday, June 29 2010
Patti Smith Joins Carmen Consoli on "Mio Zio"
Patti Smith joined the Sicilian singer-songwriter Carmen Consoli to perform Consoli's "Mio Zio"(My Uncle) in Turin, Italy. The song, from Consoli's latest album, Elettra, is…
Wednesday, July 15 2009
Patti Smith: Peace and Noise
At a recent exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, Scotland, I was fortunate enough to catch a glimpse at Robert Mapplethorpe’s "Jim…
News
Friday, June 8 2012
Musician-artist Patti Smith unleashes her imagination on a museum tour
DETROIT — “Here’s my favorite painting in the museum,” says Patti Smith, bringing a hand up to her chest, as if the sight of her…
Wednesday, January 11 2012
Rocker-poet-artist-mother’s many facets are seen in a slim volume
One thing I’ve always admired about Patti Smith is her refusal to be characterized. Rocker, poet, artist, mother: She seems to inhabit each of these…
Friday, November 19 2010
Patti Smith: A writer's journey
LOS ANGELES — "Just Kids," which won the National Book Award for nonfiction on Wednesday night, is a reminder that Patti Smith has always had…
Wednesday, August 25 2010
What Patti Smith can teach us today
Nostalgia is never more suspect than when the person romantically harking back is too young to have experienced the era firsthand. But reading Patti Smith's…
Thursday, August 2 2007
Patti Smith still uncovering reasons behind 'Twelve' covers disc
Patti Smith says she was first attracted to several of the dozen cover songs that make up her latest disc, "Twelve," because they have both…
