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 VISITORS to Modern One in Edinburgh will be presented with a 3ft spider and works by pioneering artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Helen Chadwick…

How did an ancient poet and painter who died in obscurity come to obsess everyone from Oscar Wilde to David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Derek Jarman and David Bowie? The writer of a new book explains his glorious allure

Published in November, it will cover everything from Smith’s childhood to her rise as a punk rock star and later retreat from public life

IN FOCUS: Patti Smith’s groundbreaking debut has influenced generations of musicians. But it took a producer four years to persuade Smith to enter the studio. As the album approaches its 50th birthday, Fiona Sturges reflects on how Smith overcame the misogyny of the time and pays tribute to a masterpiece…

Singer will visit US, UK and Europe later this year alongside members of the original band who recorded the classic punk text

He has captured Cruise and Kidman partying, the ‘charm’ of Trump, a disgruntled Bowie, and a deathly Mapplethorpe. As the ex New York cabbie releases a book of his extraordinary pictures, he recalls a bygone age when ‘the Kardashians would be laughed off the planet’

Designer Clive Lonstein elevates his carefully curated Manhattan home with rich textures and fabrics

Photographer Dafydd Jones’s new book documents the upper crust of the Big Apple in an era of gaudy excess: doggy canapes, ladies who lunched, and a ‘mob-like’ real-estate mogul

Some 300 of their most significant acquisitions will be on display at the Victoria and Albert museum