Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Through the history of American magazines—movingly told of in a review by Eli Siegel—can we know the human mind better, including our own? And through two poems (one about Napoleon), can we see the world more truly and like it more? Yes! Read “Literature, the World, & Aesthetic Realism,”… Read more

Marion Fennell, singer with the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company, writes: As a person who once worried about my lack of attention to things, I love what Aesthetic Realism explains about why so many people, including children, have trouble giving full attention. In her commentary in The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known issue 1339,… Read more

Public Seminar: Thursday, October 2, 6:30 PM The speakers—a painter, a sculptor, and an architect, all Terrain Gallery coordinators—show the thrilling practicality of art for people’s lives today. Ei Siegel, critic, poet, and founder of Aesthetic Realism described it in this landmark principle: “All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one… Read more

Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: What does it mean to be ourselves—and express ourselves? What makes us feel false to ourselves? And can our logic and our emotion go together, help each other? The very needed answers to these questions are in “Intelligence, Feeling, & Our True Self,” the current issue… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this upcoming Public Seminar: People are told we should like ourselves, have self-esteem—simply because we’re ourselves. So why don’t we? What makes us feel—sometimes sharply, sometimes vaguely—that we don’t like ourselves, that we’re not how we want to be? And what can change this? Aesthetic Realism logically and… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Our thoughts to ourselves—do they make us kinder or meaner, just or unjust, stronger or weaker, proud or ashamed? Read “Intelligence; or, Do We Like Our Thoughts?“—the great new issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known. The commentary by editor Ellen Reiss begins: Dear Unknown Friends:… 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: There is nobody more loved in the history of the cinema than the great Charlie Chaplin. The Little Tramp is immortal because of the way he puts opposites… Read more

Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Do we have notions of “self-expression” that are hurtful to us and to others? What would it mean for us to be really expressed? And how do we ourselves interfere with our self-expression? These questions are answered culturally and truly in “Always—Our Mind & the World,”… Read more

Sarah Weiss, former owner of Conrad’s Bike Shop (NYC), where she’s still active, says: As a woman who just turned 91, I know full well that the subject of aging torments women and men all over the world. I see what Eli Siegel writes in “Declaration about Old Age” as crucial for my life, and I want… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this upcoming Public Seminar: Every woman wants to take care of herself, get what’s coming to her. Yet she also wants to feel she’s generous, has a good effect on others. These two desires have fought in women—in fact, women are in turmoil about them. It has seemed… Read more