Musician-artist Patti Smith unleashes her imagination on a tour of the DIA

Here's my favorite painting in the museum,” says Patti Smith, bringing a hand up to her chest, as if the sight of her old friend caused her heart to skip a beat. She stands in a second-floor gallery at the Detroit Institute of Arts in front of Georges Seurat's “View of Le Crotoy from Upstream,” an 1889 oil landscape in the French post-impressionist's signature pointillist style....

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