CORRECTS DAY OF CONCERT - FILE - Patti Smith attends a special screening of "Pavarotti" at the iPic Theater in New York on May 28, 2019.
Smith performed six songs as well as read poetry and excerpts from her book “Just Kids” in the Beaux-Arts Court at the museum, her voice bouncing off the skylight 60 feet above.
It was a concert to also honor museum workers and drew just under 50 people, all socially distanced in widely spaced chairs.
The Smith concert came on the same day in 1989 that Mapplethorpe died at age 42.
It also marked the one-year anniversary of when Smith last performed live, at The Fillmore in San Francisco.