Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: On Thursday, Nov. 6th, 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: The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Succeeds, & Answers the Question “Education—What For?” Teachers of math, history, ESL, and science, 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: Ireland, with its breathtaking landscapes, Celtic legends, and centuries-long struggle for freedom, has been dramatically and movingly presented in its films. At their best they show the… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Are there things we’re insisting on in our lives every day—often without even knowing it? And what is being insisted upon in America and the world economically? Read “The Battle of Insistences,” the latest issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known.  The commentary by Ellen Reiss begins:… 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 most loved films in the world are about animals–dogs, horses, pigs, bears, even whales. People have been stirred by the way animals have shown… Read more

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

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: How can learning flourish in all of America’s schools? And how is the crisis in education related to the economic crisis in our country? Read “What Education & the Economy Are For,” the new, urgently needed issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known. The commentary by Ellen… 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