Lore Mariano, Technology Trainer (Law Firm) & Application Support Specialist, and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Whenever I visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art I’m astounded by the great variety that’s there. Is there anything all those many artworks have centrally in common? I love the fact that Eli Siegel and Aesthetic Realism describe what beauty is—of any time… Read more

Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes What is it that makes a book be rightly called “great” and seen as a “classic”? And does that have anything to do with your own hour-to-hour life—including personal hopes and confusions and daily concerns? As the new issue of The Right Of shows, Aesthetic Realism answers… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: This issue of TRO—titled “How Do We Want to See?”—does thrilling new justice to the understanding of people and the value of books. What makes a written work so good it becomes a “classic”? Is there a way of seeing the world and people in these works that we… Read more

Kevin Fennell, Aesthetic Realism associate and critic of music, writes: I love the poem by Eli Siegel “The World Says, I’m Your Valentine, My Dear”! In a charming, humorous, greatly musical, yet strictly logical way it illustrates a central idea of Aesthetic Realism: that every person’s deepest, most insistent desire is to like the world.… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: This new issue of TRO, with its surprising title, is deep, thrilling, and ever so encouraging!  You’re going to have a great good time—and new perception—as you read “Economics—It Wants to Be Ethical.” In previous issues serializing Eli Siegel’s lecture Economics Is Diverse, we’ve seen how people in history… Read more

Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: This new issue is about a most necessary and hopeful question to ask: how central a role is ethics playing in what is happening in America right now? Further: does ethics have to do with every economic decision (right or wrong) that is made, how much… 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 intimate… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Where is the world economy headed? What does history, and a true understanding of the human self, show about that? Some of the most careful and wonderful description of economic history ever given is in the new issue of TRO! “Economics Will Be Ethical” is the bold, thrilling, and… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: It’s thrilling that this new issue of TRO relates clearly and powerfully the three important words in its title: “Economics, Ethics, & Beauty.” You’ll see—and it’s the most urgent thing for people to understand right now—what ethics, what b­eauty, have to do with the history of economics, with buying and selling, with inventions,… Read more

Gina Buffone is a sustainable building consultant for affordable housing and an Aesthetic Realism associate. She writes about this talk by Dorothy Koppelman (1920-2017), artist, Aesthetic Realism consultant and founder of the Terrain Gallery: I love the talk by Dorothy Koppelman about two frescoes of Piero della Francesca: The Queen of Sheba Adoring the Holy… Read more