Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain on YouTube

Lots of you may know about this already of course, but I believe I had my first visit to Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain´s YouTube Channel this afternoon!

Seems like they have a lot of interesting stuff, but I must admit I regret I didn´t work very hard on my French lessons in school.

- Patti Smith and Patrick Wolf x Artavazd Pelechian - Swans - Live at Fondation Cartier, July, 2014.
- Meredith Monk avec Katie Geissinger en Concert - Les Soirées Nomades, mai 2014.
- Jean-Pierre Drouet, Fred Frith, Louis Sclavis - Les Soirées Nomades, juin 2014.
- Fred Frith with John Giorno and Pauline Oliveros - Concert at The Fondation Cartier 2008.
- Lee Ranaldo Concert in the Garden of the Fondation Cartier 2010.

Patti Smith is in town

Patti Smith is in town for the Bergenfest festival.
Saturday afternoon she signed copies of her novel "Just Kids" recently out on Samlaget publishers, and translated into Norwegian by Brit Bildøen.

I have already read "Just Kids" in English (blog post), so I sneaked in with a copy of "Seventh Heaven" (1971) in hand, just before she was ready to finish the signing session.

It seems like more people than me believe that a signature is adding value to a book, or is it just a celebrity issue? I admit I was a bit starstruck!

See an interview from NY1 (18 June 2012) below:

Just Kids

Patti Smith´s book "Just Kids" (Bloomsbury 2010) is her story on the relationship with Robert_Mapplethorpe. They met in New York City in 1967, and became friends, lovers and companions in the struggle to become artists.
She ended up a poet an rock singer, he a photographer, and the story about their ways there, is told in a very sober voice. Even if this is happening in New York, and lots of it in Hotel Chelsea with musicians and all kinds of artists all over the place, there is no gossip! Yes it´s a fight for money, love and fame, but this is a personal story, not a private one.
Why don´t you read it?