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The Fighting Temeraire by J.M.W. Turner

"Light and Dark, Hiding and Showing
in Joseph Mallord William Turner"
By Dorothy Koppelman


Terrain Gallery

Terrain Gallery


”Best U.S. Short”
Avignon/New York Film Festival, NY

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana
Directed by Ken Kimmelman,
Emmy award-winning filmmake
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Aesthetic Realism Looks at New York City


Senior Center photograph

Speakers on Age, Parenting, & more. See Brochure

 


Edward Green on Duke Ellington,
and more


Self and World by Eli Siegel
Self and World: An Explanation of Aesthetic Realism

 

Aesthetic Realism and the Answer to Racism
Aesthetic Realism and the Answer to Racism

 
“The deepest desire of every person is to like the world on an honest or accurate basis." — Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism

 

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Current issuearrowEveryday Worry & an Earthquake  • February 3, 2010  •  #1763

 

We publish here, from notes taken at the time, the first half of the 1947 lecture Aesthetics and Worry, by Eli Siegel. It is one in a series that he gave at Steinway Hall early in the history of Aesthetic Realism. And it explains definitively a tormenting yet everyday matter: the inaccurate worrying that people find themselves driven to engage in.

Meanwhile, this issue of TRO is being prepared days after the earthquake in Haiti—at a time when so much true worry is taking place, along with human anguish and agony on a gigantic scale. We are reprinting here, from Eli Siegel’s book Hail, American Development, his translation titled “Some Lines from Voltaire’s Poem on the Disaster at Lisbon.” The poem is about the Lisbon earthquake of 1755. * more

The Right Of is edited by Ellen Reiss, Chairman of Aesthetic Realism, who is author of its commentaries.
 

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Sunday, February 14, at 2:30 pm

Shakespeare—
& What Is Love?

The Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company presents—


A dramatic production of Eli Siegel's great 1951 lecture on

The Taming of the Shrew

Anne Fielding & Bennett Cooperman in a scene from the play.

—with scenes from the play—

And Incidental Music on Flute and Harpsichord

Contri. $12 (tax-deductible)

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Saturday, February 20, 8:00 PM

The Opposites in Sculpture, Music, & Life!

 

    WEIGHT AS LIGHTNESS: AESTHETIC REALISM LOOKS AT SCULPTURE

Venus de Milo

In this 1951 lecture Eli Siegel spoke of works from Venus de Milo to Brancusi’s Bird in Space and said:

 

“In sculpture there is a feeling of resistant nature opposed by insistent man, and man saying, ‘I can find form in you, and I’ll get that form out of you though you resist, though you are marble, bronze; though you’re anything, I’ll get beauty out of you!’”

Bird In Space by Brancusi

 

  HOW MUCH SHOULD YOU UNDERSTAND ANOTHER PERSON? Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
 

"In proportion to how much we don’t want to understand fully, that much we’ll be lonely… .Mr. Locke, what would you like Sylvia James to understand about you that she may not?" — Eli Siegel


  CHEERFULNESS & COMPLAINT IN “EVERY DAY I HAVE THE BLUES”
By Michael Palmer

“Even as the music wails and complains, the way singer Joe Williams and the Count Basie band work together with that great rhythm makes us feel anything but blue, depressed. In fact, we feel terrifically excited and composed at once!”

 

—And More!

 Contri. $10 

Following this presentation there will be a reception celebrating the 55th anniversary of the Terrain Gallery and the exhibition Surface & Depth, Part Two--Works on Paper.

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Current Exhibition
February through April

Surface & Depth: Part II exhibition at the Terrain Gallery

Hours: Wed.-Fri. 12-5, Sat. 12-4, & by appointment

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Thursday, March 4

  Competition in Men: What Makes It Good or Bad?
Jeffrey Carduner, Ken Kimmelman, Ernest DeFilippis

Contri. $10

In the important letter by Carrie WIlson you can read about the work of this Foundation and some of the great, good effects of the Aesthetic Realism education—going on right now!
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Rainbow in the Valley: Papua New Guinea 

A New Perspective
for Anthropology

 

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