Robert Mapplethorpe

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 9/20/13

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Patti Smith

Outrageousness: Now Too Big to Fail

Shock and duh.

Patti Smith Takes St. Louis!

{Ed note: Patti Smith reads from her poetry and performs a set at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis on Sunday. Our sister paper River Front Times talked to the punk pioneer. We reprint it in part here.You can read the entire interview on their site.] There's no simple way to describe Patti Smi ... More >>

YOUNG LOVE

Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith as subjects

WARHOL’S CHILDREN

Going beyond soup cans 
and Marilyns

Gay Museum Wars: Victory? Or a Truce?

For gay artists past and present, it gets better . . . slowly

The Brooklyn Museum Hosts 'Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture'

A show that made 'em mad in D.C. comes to town

VIVA THE VILLAGE!

Downtown keeps on kickin'

Does the Chelsea Hotel Have an Art Thief?

​Hot on the heels of the Hoboken Picasso thief, ArtInfo reports that the Chelsea Hotel has been undergoing a Thomas Crown affair of its own. The hotel, designated a landmark in 1966, put up for sale in 2010, has walls "caked with art" by former and current hotel residents, like Henri Cartier-B ... More >>

GIMME SOME HEAD

Leatherface never looked this good

Long May You Shoot--'After the Gold Rush' at the Met

A show of contemporary photos takes on our age's 'gilded toxicity'

Photographer Francesca Woodman Gets Her Close-Up in a Haunting Family Study

SWEETER THAN FICTION

See, memoirs can be punk

The Best Books of 2010

Vocoders, bohos, and a blast of vertigo—Village Voice writers pick their faves of the year

Mr. US Gay and I Frolic at Sex Art Show

​ Here's Mr. US Gay Eddie Rabon and my esteemed self at "Do Not Be Afraid," a no-holds-barred show of man-sexy art and photos at Thom Simmonds Gallery in Times Square Arts Center, aptly enough. Genitals were virtually popping off the walls in bold and colorful works that turned guys' junk int ... More >>

Previously Unseen Andy Warhol Images Debut in East Hampton This Weekend

Photo by Dennis Hopper, Courtesy of Eric Firestone Gallery.Andy Warhol, Henry Geldzahler, David Hockney, and Jeff Goodman in 1963.​Warhol fans won't want to miss the largest ever collection of Andy images -- including 100 previously unseen photos of one of our favorite quintessential New Yorke ... More >>

FALES SAFE

Forget all your cares and go downtown

Dancing Barefoot: Patti Smith's Just Kids

A rock icon looks back at her youth

'Naked!' at Paul Kasmin; Jessica Dickinson's 'Here'; 'Looking at Music: Side 2' at MOMA

Is Janet The Most Annoying Jackson?

Plus Nancy Giles plays with her hair. And acid redux: Elliot Tiber and Demetri Martin talk about Taking Woodstock.

Anthology Celebrates the Chelsea Hotel

Bones' Beat: 1992009 at D'Amelio Terras

This week Bones, intrepid art-world raconteur, reports back from D'Amelio Terras Gallery in Chelsea, where 1992009 juxtaposes contemporary stars from 1992 with the young gallery talent of 2009. What kind of shape are we in these days, anyway? Courtesy D'Amelio Terras It is important to note that t ... More >>

GOTHAM GREATS

The coolest BFFs on this island or any other

THE SIMPLE LIFE

Catherine Opie moves from shockers to suburbs

Patti Smith & Kevin Shields's The Coral Sea

A gorgeous, non-twangy, earth-rageous prose poem

Robert Mapplethorpe's Instant Precious Relics

Made in his early, druggy years, Mapplethorpe's Polaroids reveal an artist in curious transition

Sunday 5.11

GHOSTS OF NEW YORK

The Chelsea Hotel celebrates its 125th anniversary

Kara Walker's Thrilling Whitney Retrospective

Riding the racial high-wire

Patron Saint

Sam Wagstaff, reconsidered

Icon and Iconoclast

Is that all there is? One of the best shows of the season takes place in an empty gallery

Gore-cake

Abu Ghraib and the Berg Beheading: To look or not to look

Listings

The Laws of Depravity

Gary Indiana Talks About Crime, Career, and the Culture of Indifference

Crime Out of Mind

The New Thought Police Don't Care What You Do—Only What You Imagine

Cover Me

Photo Ops

A Last-Minute Guide to Holiday Picture Books

The Taming of the ’80s

The Way We Were

Showtime Exhumes the Mapplethorpe Trial

Body and Soul

Unveiling a Uniplex in the East Village

Slices of Life

Shot Through the Heart

Fully Booked

Photography Collections to Make the Season Bright

At the Guggenheim, an Artist in Partial Eclipse

Tasting Menu

Running Scared

The Bad Apple Defense and Other Symptoms of Spinelessness in the Art World

Through the Peephole

Paul Cadmus Sings the Body Electric and Otherwise

Designer Sampling

Beyond Style at Fashion Week