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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, the philosophy founded in 1941 by Eli Siegel, American poet, critic, and educator. Located in SoHo, NYC, the foundation is a center for culture and kindness. It offers classes in the visual arts, poetry, music, anthropology, and more. There are public seminars, individual consultations, workshops for teachers, and thrilling dramatic and musical events. People of all ages understand themselves newly through the principles of Aesthetic Realism. Read more
Ibsen, Bach, &—What Interferes with Love!
Special Event
An Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company Production of Eli Siegel’s lecture on Ibsen’s A Doll’s House —And Two Melodies Teach Us How to Love!—or, J.S. Bach’s Flute Sonata in E-flat by Barbara Allen, flute; Edward Green, piano
Sunday, April 28, 2:30 PM
True Strength in a Man—What Is It?
Public Seminar
Thursday, March 7 • 6:30 PM
Our Lives, Literature, & Evolution
Dramatic Presentation
Saturday, March 16 • 8:00 PM
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Ruth Oron, born in Israel, is an essayist, sculptor, and Aesthetic Realism associate. She writes:
People everywhere are troubled by their inability to give deep attention to things outside themselves. In his great lecture Mind and Attention, Eli Siegel provides the explanation of what true attention is, and why people have difficulty giving it.
For so much of my early life I was definitely interested in getting attention but not too interested in giving it. My desire to feel I was better than other people ran ahead of my desire to learn…
TERRAIN GALLERY
Terrain Gallery Anniversary Exhibition
Celebrating the Life & Art of
DOROTHY KOPPELMAN
Feb. 24th—September 2019
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Winter semester of classes is now in session. For information about auditing classes, call the Registrar at 212.777.4490.
See for yourself why Aesthetic Realism is the means to the justice hoped for and needed today! Read this letter—to you and people everywhere—by Aesthetic Realism associate and science educator Barbara McClung!
“I am writing to you with great pleasure, and with a sense of urgency as well…. Aesthetic Realism is knowledge that can make for logical and accurate happiness and true pride in a person’s life. Further—and this has tremendous national and international meaning—it explains the cause of the huge injustices afflicting people’s lives today, including racism, war, economic brutality, shootings in our schools. I say soberly: it is knowledge that can have these finally end….” more
See this stirring film of Eli Siegel’s Nation prize-winning poem “Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana.” Historian Howard Zinn said of it:
“Ken Kimmelman’s reproduction, on film, of Eli Siegel’s magisterial poem, is an extraordinary achievement. It matches, in its visual beauty, the elegance of Siegel’s words, and adds the dimension of stunning imagery to an already profound work of art.”