Sally Ross, biology teacher and Aesthetic Realism associate, says: I love the excitement the Aesthetic Realism teaching method brings to the teaching of science! In the article by Rosemary Plumstead that follows, you’ll feel that excitement and see why this educational method is desperately needed. Later in the article, she describes a thrilling lesson in… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: The new issue of TRO, “The Two Powers,” explains something that affects us all. To be alive is to want power—but what kind of power? You’ll be thrilled to learn 1) what differentiates good power from bad—anywhere, from personal life to economics; and 2) how Christopher Marlowe’s bold, exciting play The Tragical… Read more

Marion Fennell, singer with the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company, writes about Carrie Wilson’s talk “What Can Art Teach Us about Love?: Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party”: Like other women, I hoped for love in my life. I also liked to draw and paint–but never dreamed there was any relation between my care for art… Read more

Dr. Jaime Torres, Senior Advisor to the President & CEO at Urban Health Plan, a community health network, writes: How important it is for people to know that everyone is in a fight all the time. And that fight is between the pleasure of respect—seeing meaning in people and things—and the satisfaction we get from… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: The new issue of TRO, “Poetry, Ourselves, & What Reality Has,” is richly surprising and kind. Do you know how much meaning things and people can have for you? You’ll have a new sight of how much through this issue. Here, some important poems—and also large matters in the world… Read more

Matthew D’Amico, Aesthetic Realism associate, and political coordinator for a New York State labor union, says: With the 2023 baseball season in full swing, people all over our country are going to ballparks or watching televised games—and cheering for their teams. And amid all the hubbub and feeling, there’s Major League Baseball’s new pitch clock… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: A new and big experience awaits you in this latest issue of TRO, titled “Can Incongruity Be Seen Beautifully? Yes.” Do we use what doesn’t seem to make sense in life, the incongruous, to see the world as against us—to tell ourselves reality is something to have contempt for? Meanwhile,… Read more

Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Aesthetic Realism is the education that shows the deep, organic, tremendously hopeful relation between poetry and our lives! That is what this current issue of TRO is about. And you’ll learn about a fight within everyone, which people haven’t understood: How much do we want to… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: “Abandon—Good and Bad,” is new, kind, and absolutely thrilling. Looking at the opposites of abandon and exactitude, it illustrates the great central principle of Aesthetic Realism: Eli Siegel’s statement “All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.” Letting go and… Read more

NYC Planner Barbara Buehler writes about this landmark 1947 essay by Eli Siegel: Most people don’t understand why they are unhappy–I certainly didn’t. Growing up in Pound Ridge, NY, and later studying international politics at George Washington University, I thought my biggest problem was my shyness, the fact that I couldn’t connect with other people. That,… Read more