Patti Smith at Robert Maplethorpe: A Season in Hell (Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art)

Patti Smith at Robert Maplethorpe: A Season in Hell
Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, December 2009

Mapplethorpe - A Season in Hell

The evening of Tuesday the 13th of October seemed as ordinary as any other end of day here in London. Perhaps a bit nippier than usual, but nothing suspect about a cool autumn night. In Fitzrovia, the urbane district just north of Oxford Street, the black cabs zipped along its warren of well trod streets at their usual pace. That is until they hit Berners Street, where a mass of (what seemed to be several hundred) ardent fans spilled and sprawled across the pavement in anticipation of a performance by Patti Smith at the Alison Jacques Gallery opening of Robert Mapplethorpe: A Season in Hell – a new interpretation of works by the acclaimed and oft scorned artist Robert Mapplethorpe, including rarely seen collages and (of course) photographs.

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