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 …

Lost Stories from Dr. Seuss

The author's old magazine pieces republished, featuring new and familiar faces

Though Theodor Seuss Geisel—best known as Dr. Seuss—passed away in 1991, his spirit lives eternally through his imaginative characters and tongue-twisting rhymes that have delighted children and parents alike for decades. Today, “Horton and the Kwuggerbug and more Lost Stories” is released from Random House, featuring four stories that originally appeared—and were subsequently forgotten about—in Redbook magazine in the early ’50s. Now republished in book …

Tattoo Book

A wide look at aesthetics in contemporary tattooing and the art form's global history

It’s estimated that one in four Americans has at least one tattoo. Once associated with criminality (at least in certain cultures), tattoos have become overwhelmingly common. This is not new news. Taking a deeper look into the phenomenon, contemporary tattooing and the art form’s more global beginnings is “Tattoo,” a new book published to accompany an exhibition at Paris’ Musée du Quai Branly. While there …