Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: On Thursday, Nov. 5th, from 6:30 PM to 8 PM, there will be a public seminar that will present the answers teachers, administrators, and parents are desperate for—“American Education Needs the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method: Teachers Tell Why!” Teachers of math, physical education, ESL, science, and reading, from elementary… 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: The impossible, the outrageous, the uproarious, and the gravity-defying can be seen in an animated film. While thousands of such films have been produced all over the… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: What makes a work of literature stand the test of time? And what does this have to do with our lives every day? Are we looking to have, in the way we see the world, the justice that is in art? Read “The History of Feelings,” the beautiful new… Read more

Public Seminar Thursday, November 5, 6:30 PM At this public seminar, you will hear about the teaching method that can really meet the hopes of our nation’s young people! Through vivid lessons from their own classrooms, teachers will describe how this method has enabled students—many of whom had failed—many of whom dreaded coming to school—to… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this upcoming Public Seminar: Women haven’t always known the difference between taking on a task and doing it efficiently—arranging details in a useful way—and wanting to control everything, particularly the people close to them. And they haven’t been able to distinguish between being happily affected by another person’s… 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: Some of the greatest acts of valor in history were those of the men and women of the Resistance in World War II. They were persons passionately… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: In order to like ourselves, do we have to see that our individual self is related to the whole world and other persons? Yes! Read “Your Particular Self–& All People,” the exciting new issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known. The commentary by editor Ellen Reiss… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this upcoming Public Seminar: There’s hardly anything that confuses people more than our own feelings. A man can try to be cool, have little emotion—and then feel empty and ask, “Why am I often so cold and unmoved?” At other times he can explode angrily—even at people he… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Why can the same person go from caring about people to feeling cold toward them? Why is there so much unfeelingness in the world still, after centuries—and what can change it? These questions are answered, mightily, in “Fellow-Feeling, & What’s Against It,” the new issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to… Read more

Louis Dienes, poet and photographer, began to study Aesthetic Realism in 1943. He recommends Eli Siegel’s poem “Ralph Isham, 1753 and Later” and says: Human beings of all ages–including me–have puzzled over, wrestled with, and tried to make sense out of two mighty opposites, life and death. In a great free verse poem of 1925,… Read more