Mention of Patti and Mapplethorpe in article re: Susan Sontag

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_http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/arts/design/18sont.html_
(http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/arts/design/18sont.html)
>From the New York Times
On Sontag: Essayist as Metaphor and Muse, by Holland Cotter
"Sontag herself was photographed repeatedly. In the 1980bs she sat for a
portrait by Robert Mapplethorpe and wrote, rather pompously, on the
experience.
The Mapplethorpe in the show, however, is a portrait of someone else, the
singer  and poet Patti Smith. Ms. Smith is, I suspect, the kind of celebrity
that
Sontag  a little bit wanted to be, not an intellectual pundit but a demimonde
pop star,  her words backed up by electric guitar.
Mapplethorpe was wired into that demimonde. And he was one of Sontagbs many
gay acquaintances who died of AIDS."