Budapest's highbrow Museum of Fine Arts has staged its first-ever photography exhibition, causing a sensation with a novel show paying tribute to some of the best artists of the genre. The display, entitled "Soul and Body - Kertesz to Mapplethorpe through the eyes of the greatest masters of photography", combines artworks from the museum's permanent collection with pictures by ...

Recorded over two nights at the Royal Festival Hall in 2005 and 2006, The Coral Sea is Patti Smith's eulogy to her great friend, Robert Mapplethorpe, who took the famous photo that adorned her Horses album; he died of Aids-related complications in 1989. Smith tells the story of Mapplethorpe's mythical voyage to see the stars of the Southern ...