Ken Kimmelman, Emmy award-winning filmmaker and Aesthetic Realism consultant, says about this upcoming class in his course “If It Moves, It Can Move You”: Opposites in the Cinema: People have always loved singing and dancing, and when sound came to the movies with Al Jolson’s The Jazz Singer, the movie musical was born. The motion… Read more

Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Is there a solid, objective means of distinguishing what is truly beautiful from that which isn’t? Likewise, how can we tell the difference between a discontent in ourselves that does our lives good and one that weakens us? For the urgent and logical answers to these… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this upcoming Public Seminar: Everyone would like to feel at ease, be comfortable. Yet often, the ways we go after being comfortable—and also our idea of what comfort is—are the reason we’re uncomfortable under our own skin, unsure of ourselves, and ashamed. Are comfort and self-respect opposites that… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: A battle that goes on in every person is explained magnificently in an Aesthetic Realism lesson conducted by Eli Siegel: the battle about affecting and being affected. How can we make honest, even beautiful sense of these? Read “The World Drama in Everyone: The Opposites,” the new, needed issue of The Right of… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: What purpose enables love to succeed? Why are people—including lovers—so often displeased with each other and other things? The hoped-for answers are in “Poetry, Love, & Dissatisfaction,” the great new issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known.  The commentary by Ellen Reiss begins: Dear Unknown Friends: Here… Read more

A Dramatic Presentation of Eli Siegel’s lecture “When Does Evil Begin?” With vivid passages from Dickens’ “Nicholas Nickleby,” Fielding’s “Tom Jones,” & more — in relation to Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw.” — Also “Mozart, Individuality, & You!” Mozart’s Flute Concerto in D performed & commented on by Barbara Allen (flute) & Edward Green… Read more

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

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, says, “I’m very proud to be taking part in this public seminar.” She writes: Women have been determined in many fields, including education, career, family, social justice—and certainly, in the field of love. But even as a woman may seem to achieve what she’s been going for, she can feel deeply… Read more

Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: As two people are devoted to one another, is there something outside of them on which their love depends? Do two people judge themselves and each other on: how just are we to the world itself?  Do we love a person if we don’t want to encourage… Read more

Ken Kimmelman, Emmy award-winning filmmaker and Aesthetic Realism consultant, says about this upcoming class in his course “If It Moves, It Can Move You”: Opposites in the Cinema: Filmmakers around the globe have been very interested in presenting on the big screen the intimate drama of marriage—the hopes and fears, pains and pleasures, fors and… Read more