Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Is each of us unique—and at the same time related to every person throughout the world? How important is this? What urgent meaning does it have for our own lives—and America right now? For the answers to these questions, read “Our Self: Intimate & Wide,” the new issue of The… 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: 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

Michael Palmer, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Growing up in the Bronx, I thought snobbishness was a trait that wealthy people had. Meanwhile, I remember using our nice apartment to look down on my friends who lived in poorer housing on the same block. Studying Aesthetic Realism, I began to understand something about myself for the… 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