Celebrated music critic and historian Greil Marcus wrote an article for granta.com describing his relationship to Harry Smith’s work and smith impact on the contemporary folk music landscape.

Harry Smith is known mostly through his seminal collection of American folk tunes from Folkways Records, The Anthology of American Folk Music, which earned him recognition after its original 1952 release and, again later, with the folk revival of the 1950s-’60s. Without Smith’s recordings and his insightfully elaborate notes for the songs, the landscape for American music would have been dramatically weakened. In January of 2002 Darrin Daniel published an article on Smith’s life, time in Bellingham, WA and contributions at the Naropa institute for The Gadfly Online.

In this lively and provocative study, Geoff Ward puts forward the bold claim that the founding documents of American identity are essentially literary. America was invented, not discovered, and it remains in thrall to the myth of an earthly Paradise. This is Paradise, and American ideology imprisons as it inspires. The book’s fifth chapter “Going Fishing: Harry Smith, the Anthology of American Folk Music, and the Fan” focuses on Smith’s legacy.

The Getty Research Institute presents a screening of Harry Smith’s groundbreaking film Mahagonny accompanied by a symposium and performance by Patti Smith.

The James Cohan Gallery presents Harry Smith’s paintings in the exhibition “The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward: Selected works by Harry Smith, Philip Taaffe and Fred Tomaselli.”

Anthology Film Archives is proud to present the American premiere of the newly restored masterpiece by Harry Smith, FILM #18, MAHAGONNY, as part of a nine-day tribute to the multi-faceted experimental filmmaker, anthropologist, painter, and musicologist.

Locust Music reissues Smithsonian Folkways recording New York Blues: Rags, Ballads and Harmonium Songs: Allen Ginsberg recorded by Harry Smith.