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Hear a talk—vibrant, thought-
provoking, immediately practical—
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This animated film will delight
& inspire children and adults.

Thomas Comma, new animated film by Ken Kimmelman

THOMAS COMMA

Directed by Ken Kimmelman

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker
Based on a story by poet
Martha Baird


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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See latest review on ReelTalk



Senior Center photograph

Speakers on Age, Parenting, & more. See Brochure

 

Duke Ellington
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

 

Rainbow in the Valley: Papua New Guinea

A New Perspective
for Anthropology

 

 

 

“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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The purpose of the not-for-profit Aesthetic Realism Foundation is to meet the urgent need for people throughout America and the world to see each other and reality fairly.  The means to that fairness is Aesthetic Realism... arrowmore

Classes at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation  Study Poetry, Music, Art, Acting, Singing, Anthropology, & arrowmore

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The Foundation's faculty and associates speak regularly about Aesthetic Realism and its value for the understanding of the arts and sciences, and the lives of people today, at important scholarly conferences and artistic venues here and abroad. arrowmore


Upcoming Events at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation

Public Seminar
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Thursday, September 2, 6:30 pm

 

arrow What's a Husband's Biggest Mistake? Jeffrey Carduner, Arnold Perey, Bennett Cooperman

 

Contri $10


Dramatic Presentations
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Saturday, September 18, 8 pm

On Beauty, Justice, & the Self of Everyone

  Aesthetic Realism Looks at Things: DiscontentA 1952 lecture by Eli Siegel, enormously relevant today:

“At the present time, there is more conscious discontent than perhaps at any other time in the world’s history. When people realize this, they will have to say, for their own protection: ‘We’ve got to have people contented in this world, or there will be danger.’”


 
Power & Tenderness in Men & Picasso's Minotauromachy. by the late Chaim Koppelman, artist & Aesthetic Realism consultant, whose Memorial Exhibition is now at the Terrain Gallery

Chaim Koppelman on Picasso's 'Minotauromachy'

“In this etching, power and tenderness—opposites that so often fight in men—are made one, beautifully, richly, movingly. A young girl holding a bouquet of flowers in one hand and a lit candle in the other, representing tenderness and the brave desire to see, and the bull-man with his raw power and his groping desire to see, join in the continuous form of an arch. Two aspects of the self are brought together, and it is thrilling.”

  Are You Proud of Your Desire?  Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson

"If a person feels bad because he’s been unjust to something, would you say that is equivalent to a desire to be just to that something?...If you feel bad not doing something, does that mean you have a desire to do it?" —Eli Siegel

—And More!

Contributions to the Aesthetic Realism Foundation are tax-deductible.
 Contri. $10

 


Our Annual Fundraising Campaign is now underway & you can read about the work of this Foundation and some of the great, good effects of the Aesthetic Realism education—in the letter by Consultant Nancy Huntting.  click here

Current issuearrowOur Self—& What Explains It September 1, 2010  •  #1778

We are honored to publish here the first part of a 1946 lecture by Eli Siegel, What Aesthetic Realism Is & Is Not, from his Steinway Hall series. He is describing how Aesthetic Realism differs from other approaches to mind then current. And as he does, we can see too that it differs vitally from the approaches current now.

Commenting on such persons as Freud, Horney, Adler, and Jung, Mr. Siegel points out that he is not, in this talk, discussing texts. He certainly did so, closely and richly, on other occasions. Here, speaking somewhat casually but exactly, he is giving an overview.

Eli Siegel respected the work of other philosophers and writers on mind—he loved, for instance, Kant, Descartes, Hegel, Locke—and saw Aesthetic Realism as coherent with good thought anywhere. But he did not want it to be made falsely akin to things it differed from hugely....    * more

The Right Of is edited by Ellen Reiss, Chairman of Aesthetic Realism, who is author of its commentaries.
Note: The issues of TRO that include the lectures Eli Siegel gave in 1946 and 1947 in Steinway Hall, New York City, beginning with Issue 1735, are archived on the Aesthetic Realism & Mind page, as they are published.

Special Event
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Sunday, October 10, 2:30 pm

 

The Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company presents

Symmetry & Fury—in Sheridan, Handel, & Our Lives!

A Dramatic Presentation of Eli Siegel's Great 1964 Lecture

Symmetry & Fury in Sheridan's The Critic

—with scenes from the play—

Cast:

Bennett Cooperman  •  Anne Fielding  •  Timothy Lynch

Carol McCluer  •  Derek Mali  •  Karen Van Outryve  •  Carrie Wilson

and

Handel's Flute Sonata in F Tells Us How to Be Free!

Comments & Performance by

Barbara Allen, flute  •  Edward Green, piano

Contri. $12 

To print information, click here

 

Terrain Gallery
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"In reality opposites are one; art shows this." —Eli Siegel


A Memorial Exhibition

Chaim Koppelman (1920-2009)

Prints, Paintings, Pastels, Sculpture with critical comment

 

Current exhibition through
September 2010

 

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

Gallery will be closed on Saturday, Sept. 4
for Labor Day Holiday

Terrain Gallery /
Aesthetic Realism Foundation

141 Greene Street, NYC 10012

Napoleon Seeing by Chaim Koppelman

 

Click here to see a selection of works
in this exhibition
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For information about Chaim Koppelman and his work, click here


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