A Conversation with Michael Harrison
Bret Schneider delves into everything from Indian ragas to Bach’s recreation of the mind with composer and pianist Michael Harrison.
A Conversation with Katrina Krimsky
Bret Schneider speaks with composer Katrina Krimsky about her career spanning half a century.
What was Post-Internet?: An Interview with Ann Hirsch and Parker Ito
“I wanted to connect to people who were like-minded but also saw this as a new frontier with a lot of possibilities for art making.”
A Dialogue on Music
Bret Schneider and Omair Hussain discuss musical composition and their albums Drunk Walks and What Goes Away.
In Conversation with Elisa Jensen
Caesura editors Patrick Zapien and Gabriel Almeida talk to Elisa Jensen about her practice.
In Conversation with Jeane Cohen
Caesura editors Patrick Zapien and Gabriel Almeida talk to Jeane Cohen about her practice.
In Conversation with Peter Shear
On December 11, 2022, Caesura editors Gabriel Almeida and Patrick Zapien hosted a live-streamed conversation with Bloomington, Indiana-based painter Peter Shear.
Nina Léger and Jean Daniélou: In conversation with Alix Le Méléder
This conversation of Alix Le Méléder with historian Nina Léger and philosopher Jean Daniélou originally took place at the artist’s home in Burgundy in the summer of 2015, four years after she had resolved to cease her activities as a painter.
In Conversation with Will Gabaldón
On November 20, 2022, Caesura editors Gabriel Almeida and Patrick Zapien hosted a live-streamed conversation with Chicago-based painter Will Gabaldón.
In Conversation with David Abbott
On November 13, 2022, Caesura editors Gabriel Almeida and Patrick Zapien hosted a live-streamed conversation with Bristol-based painter David Abbott.
On Literary Evolution: An Interview with Stéphane Mallarmé
An 1891 interview with Mallarmé, translated from the French by poet Cid Corman.
Surrealism’s Declining Years: An Interview with Monique Fong
Monique Fong discusses Surrealism with Erin Hagood.
Interview with Jonathan Galassi and Robyn Creswell
Jonathan Galassi and Robyn Creswell discuss editing the FSG Poetry Anthology with Austin Carder and Aaron Fagan.
Interview with Max Wolf Valerio
“Art has to have a sense of pleasure and danger, of stretching limitations and perceptions.”
Interview with Austin Carder
“The category of experience connects original composition to translation. Just as poets shape their experience into a poem, the translator shapes a more specific experience, the experience of the original poem, into the translation.”
The Legacy of Political Music: A Conversation with Frederic Rzewski
Jim Igor Kallenberg interviewed the late Frederic Rzewski.
Interview with Patrick Zapien
“From the artist’s perspective, it's the case that all art has to be a reconsideration of art history. Every artwork, in order to find its originality, has to reconsider all of art history.”
Why Another Aeneid? Because We Don’t Need One
“I do want to be aware of those tensions (between academy and creativity, between ‘translation’ and ‘adaptation’), and find a way to play off them without being tortured or paralyzed by them or pulled too far in one direction or the other.”
Interview with Boyd Rice
Stefan Hain and Boyd Rice discuss Rice and Darja Bajagić’s “Banned Exhibition,” punks in the 1970s, and ‘authoritarian’ symbols.