Interview: Casey Spooner of Fischerspooner

Spanning performance art, music and theatre, the influential New York legend weighs in on his upcoming book "New Truth"

Starbucks isn’t the place New Yorkers go to for art (or really coffee for that matter). However on one fateful night in 1998 at the East Village’s Astor Place location, the coffee retailer was unsuspectingly turned into a guerrilla performance art venue. Casey Spooner and Warren Fischer, art school grads new to the city from Chicago, threw together a performance under the moniker Fischerspooner. From …

Interview: Video Artists Undervolt & Co

Johnny Woods on what it means to be an experimental label and their upcoming performances at VIA Festival

Now in its fifth year, new media festival VIA in Pittsburgh (where both video artists and musicians are the headliners) has grown to be a platform that showcases boundary-pushing art, technology and creative exploration, in an approachable setting. This mood of inclusivity, in which the community is there to contribute and engage and play and just be inspired, is perhaps VIA’s other distinctive feature; the …

Pat Graham’s Modest Mouse

The band's longtime friend and faithful photographer shares images from their storied careers in a new book

In 1992, photographer Pat Graham took his first photo of his then roommate Isaac Brock—a man who would go on to front the rock band Modest Mouse and leave a lasting impact on the music world. Graham saw Modest Mouse perform for the first time in 1996 and captured photos of that show, before touring with them off and on for almost two decades while …