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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

 

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, & more...     For information about auditing classes, contact Class Registrar at 212.777.4490

Aesthetic Realism Consultations are the dynamic, principled, and eminently successful education in the subject everyone wants most to understand: ourselves...arrowmore

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

 

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Sunday, August 8, 2:30 PM

The Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company presents—

To print information, click here

 

Public Seminar
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Thurs., August 5, at 6:30 PM  

arrow Can a Woman Make Sense of How She's For & Against a Man, the World, Herself? Nancy Huntting, Karen Van Outryve, Carrie Wilson

Contri. $10

 

Dramatic Presentations
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 8:00 pm

Self, Land, & the Opposites!

  Aesthetic Realism & Parkman's The Oregon Trail by Eli Siegel

"The Oregon Trail is essentially a study in the wildness and in the symmetry or order of the world, and therefore of the self.”

  The Meaning of Allergy  Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson

"Does late summer say to a person, 'Don’t keep warmth and cold apart in you; we’re together this very day'"?—Eli Siegel

 

  What Can Art Teach Us about Love?—Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party"
by Carrie Wilson

Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party."

"To make a composition of many people you know and to see a relation among them that brings out the meaning of each, which Renoir does here, is what is necessary in love."

 

Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party"
—More
 
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 issuearrowProfits & Feeling in America July 21, 2010  •  #1775

We are proud to publish, from notes taken at the time, the lecture Eli Siegel gave on April 17, 1947, at Steinway Hall. In The Unconscious of America, he explains what people now, six decades later, need to know: what is the biggest question in the life of each of us, and also the biggest question America as nation needs to answer.... “The unconscious” is not talked about as much as it used to be. In 1947, when this lecture was given, the Freudian picture of the unconscious was everywhere one turned....

Meanwhile, today most people would grant that there are things in them they don’t know, that they’re affected in ways they don’t understand. In the 1940s, Mr. Siegel gave this description of the unconscious—so clear, and so different from the murky cauldron Freud depicted: “The unconscious is, most deeply, what we want which we don’t know we want” (Self and World, p.112)....

Weeks ago I wrote about the explosion and ensuing oil spill off Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s clear to millions of Americans that this spill, which is really a continuous gushing, was caused by the profit motive. Millions of people are conscious that the company, BP, did not take the needed precautions, and for only one reason: to do so would have cut into BP’s profits, which mattered much more to it than people’s lives. There is fury in America about this fact. * 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.

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

 

Terrain Gallery /
Aesthetic Realism Foundation

141 Greene Street, NYC 10012

Napoleon Seeing by Chaim Koppelman

For information about Chaim Koppelman and his work, click here


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of published information from the 1930s to today about the philosophy founded by El Siegel.

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