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

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

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

Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: What would it mean for a nation’s economy to be authentically free and fair, so that all citizens can get what they deserve? The true, logical, satisfying, and kind answer to that question is presented in this new issue of TRO. Also explained in it: what do matters… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: What qualities does a good novel or a good poem have that we want to have? In the latest issue of TRO, “The Novel, Poetry, & Our Lives Now,” there is some of the most thrilling literary commentary you’ll ever encounter, as (for instance) Eli Siegel speaks about such novelists as… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: People everywhere are hoping for love. Meanwhile, after failed relationships, they wonder, as I did: What am I doing wrong? Read the kind answer Aesthetic Realism gives to this troubling question in “The Beauty of Art & the Pain about Love.” Editor Ellen Reiss explains that the mistakes people… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: What world-significance is in this issue, “What Impels?,” of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known! Present in it are Sappho, Homer, Virgil, Victor Hugo—and you’ll be in the midst of the most important question of our time: What is the thing making for the distress of people and of nations? Is there a fight every… Read more