Donita Ellison is an art educator and Aesthetic Realism associate, originally from Springfield, Missouri. She writes about “Le Corbusier & the Debate in People between Coolness & Warmth” by Dale Laurin, RA: I first learned about the 20th-century architect Le Corbusier when I was an art major in college, and I was especially moved by… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: As 2019 begins, two subjects that affect every person tremendously are success and expression. What is real success? What is true expression? What interferes with both? —And: what do two important New England writers have to do with everyone’s life? Read “Literature, & the Life We Want,” this great… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: The Understanding Marriage! class of Saturday, January 12th, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM, will be a wonderfully practical event conducted by Aesthetic Realism consultants Barbara Allen, Anne Fielding, and Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman: “Longed for in Marriage: The Oneness of Encouragement & Criticism.” The class is open to all women. The… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: “What Can We Learn from Music about Our Lives?” is the title of an exciting public seminar that will take place on Thursday, Jan 3, 2019, at 6:30 PM. The speakers are musicians, singers, and educators. With musical examples from classical, to jazz, to rock ‘n’ roll, they will… Read more

Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Two important American writers, Henry David Thoreau and James Russell Lowell—what do they have to do with a problem of everyone today: the fact that our self alone feels too different from the self that’s social, that’s in the midst of other people? And what do… Read more

Faith K. Stern, Aesthetic Realism consultant, created the popular website beautyofnyc.org with her husband John Stern. She says: I love Eli Siegel’s poem “Meant To Be.” It presents the importance of relation—a subject Mr. Siegel loved and was passionate about. “Meant To Be” combines the everyday and the philosophic. It shows how things— from the… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: What troubles people so much—each and every day—-is deeply and magnificently explained in “Restlessness, Understood at Last“! Find out what causes restlessness, how it’s encouraged by our current economic system, and what can truly end it—in this thrilling new issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known. The commentary… Read more

Barbara McClung, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: What woman hasn’t cursed herself for something she said or did in a relationship with a man she cared for, and later vowed to be different? Who hasn’t felt, “If only I had it to do it over”? Aesthetic Realism shows that love is a subject to be studied… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: “The Mix-up in Every Wife about Selfishness & Generosity—& the Aesthetic Answer!” will be the subject of the Understanding Marriage! class on Saturday, Dec. 8th. The class is from 11:00 AM-12:30 PM, and is open to all women. Selfishness and generosity is a huge matter in married life. For… Read more

Due to the necessary installation of a new boiler, this Thursday’s seminar, Other People–How Should We See Them?, will not take place on December 6. It has been rescheduled, and will take place instead on the following Thursday, December 13. Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: How we see other people—at home, at work, in social… Read more