Go to Aesthetic Realism Podcasts Hear a talk—vibrant, thought-
provoking, immediately practical—
by Aesthetic Realism associate & actress Carol McCluer.more
Aesthetic Realism Consultations In consultations, a person’s individual life questions are understood and explained, through the principles of Aesthetic Realism....more
On the first Thursday of every month the Aesthetic Realism Consultants and Associates present public seminars. Representative subjects include: “Real Communication in Marriage—How Can We Have It?”; “What's the Difference between Wowing People & Liking Yourself?”; “Kindness: Is It Strong ?”; “The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Succeeds: Knowledge Wins, Prejudice Loses!”
Thursday, February 2, 6:30 PM
A Woman’s Dissatisfaction—What Makes It
Wise
or Foolish, Right or Wrong?
Dissatisfaction is a tremendously frequent and often confusing emotion. What makes us have it? How fair are we as we feel dissatisfied?
This is what the consultation trio The Three Persons--Margot Carpenter, Carol Driscoll, Devorah Tarrow--will speak about. As they comment on the subject in relation to their own lives and the lives of women in history and the arts, they'll show what Aesthetic Realism explains about the difference between true and false dissatisfaction.
And they'll describe how women today are learning to see dissatisfaction accurately through magnificent, pride-giving Aesthetic Realism consultations!
With this issue we begin to serialize the lecture New York Begins Poetically, which Eli Siegel gave in October 1970. Relating aspects of history, literature, and the feelings of people, it is a deep, leisurely, surprising, often humorous discussion. In it, this Aesthetic Realism principle is inseparable from New York—her earth, years, lives: “All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.”
Eli Siegel loved New York, and the city is present in many of his poems. Despite all the injustice, and the suffering too, that have taken place here, New York is beautiful, and one of the reasons is the way suffering and injustice have been fought.
In New York Begins Poetically, it is principally Manhattan that Mr. Siegel speaks of and presents as having that oneness of opposites which makes for poetry. In this first section, beginning with 1626 and Peter Minuit, he comments on three pairs of opposites. And so, by means of introduction, I’ll say a little about ways those opposites can be in us, in all people, very often confusingly and troublingly. more
Pioneering dramatic and musical presentations take place at the Foundation, and elsewhere as part of the Foundation's Outreach Program. These productions—a new dramatic form with performance and comment—include "Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream; or, Earthy Whirl," by Eli Siegel; "Rock 'n' Roll, the Opposites, & Our Greatest Hopes!"; "Ibsen, Bach, & What Interferes with Love"' and more.
Sunday, February 12, 2:30 PM
Celebrating the 200th anniversary
of the birth of Charles Dickens,
the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company presents—
How Should a Person Be Seen?
or, Charles Dickens'Hard Times
A dramatic enactment of Eli Siegel’s great lecture,
with scenes from the novel; & songs—
about labor, learning, & the human heart
These feature dramatic readings of some of the great lectures on literature, ethics, economics, history, everyday life, and art given by Eli Siegel. There are reenactments of Aesthetic Realism lessons he taught, upon which Aesthetic Realism consultations today are based. And there are groundbreaking talks by artists and scholars in many fields—including jazz, architecture, photography, film—on this new way of seeing the arts, sciences, and reality itself.
Saturday, February 18, 8 PM
Painting, Music, & Our Lives!
Celebrating the 57th Anniversary
of the Terrain Gallery
•Aesthetic Realism & Hieronymus Bosch
by Eli Siegel
"When the painter Bosch took very disgusting, fearful things and related them to things that are more beautiful, it came from a desire to like the world.”
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