Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Complaining has always been popular. But what is the criterion for complaint? Why is some complaint valuable and another kind very hurtful? And what can we learn about the subject from a poet who Eli Siegel said was “one of the great complainers of all time”? You can find out in… Read more

Aesthetic Realism Public Seminar Thursday, April 6, 6:30 PM The speakers–a painter, an architect, and a sculptor—show the thrilling practicality of art for people’s lives today. Their basis is this principle—a landmark in human and art history—stated by Eli Siegel, critic, poet, and founder of Aesthetic Realism: “All beauty is a making one of opposites,… Read more

Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: We all know that complaining and seeking consolation go on a great deal among people. But are there two different kinds of complaint? Also, two different kinds of consolation? And does one kind strengthen us, and the other kind weaken us? What’s the criterion for good… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism Consultant, writes: Complaining is a big part of life. But is there some complaining that weakens us and some that strengthens us; some that has us like ourselves and some that has us despise ourselves? Is there a criterion for complaint? And what does it have to do with art, with… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: In becoming a wife, a woman says in a big way that she needs her husband. Yet the very idea that she needs someone besides herself troubles many a wife: she can feel that in needing her husband she is somehow curtailing her individuality, losing her autonomy. (Men can… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this upcoming Public Seminar: Aesthetic Realism consultants Ken Kimmelman, Ernest DeFilippis, and Jeffrey Carduner will answer the urgent question in this seminar’s title—clearly, vividly, and thrillingly. Everyone wants to have power—to have an effect on other people, things, the world itself. But why, even when people succeed in… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Possessiveness—wives and husbands have been driven by it in intense and also subtle ways. For instance, many a woman has felt about her husband, “He’s my world!” and thought it proof of her love. Or she might feel she “knows” him, what’s best for him, what he should wear,… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this upcoming Public Seminar: What does it mean to be honest? And why is the rival of honesty—deception—so popular? As the speakers at this seminar—consultant Nancy Huntting and associates Carol McCluer and Miriam Weiss—will show, Aesthetic Realism answers these questions with kind, great, and satisfying logic. With evidence… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism Consultant, writes: Does every person have a desire to be just, and also a desire to own, manipulate, lessen the outside world and other people?  Is a great play of Marlowe, Dr. Faustus, a means of understanding these warring purposes? And: can two big opposites, knowing and feeling, ever make sense and work… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Romance: every married couple wants theirs to be, grow, and last. Yet a big worry of many a wife is that romance is fading no matter what she tries—candlelit dinners, “romantic getaways,” date nights. What women most need to know to have deep, exciting romance will be explained with… Read more