Realism

'Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape'

Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Unicorn, Bergamot Station, War on Terror, Charlotta Westergren, Durer, Animal Farm, Realism, Los Angeles Art Exhibitions, Video, Patrick Painter, Raft of the Medusa, Gericault, Flemish Painting, Slidepollajax, Female Artists, Arts News

The title of Charlotta Westergren's new exhibition is "SERE: Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape." SERE is a military program that originated to tra...

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What Is The Line Between Realism And Sensationalism?

Corban Addison | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Book Reviews, USA Today, John Grisham, Sex Trafficking, Child Sex Trafficking, Realism, Writing, Sensationalism, A Walk Across the Sun, Books News
Corban Addison

Is there a point where the artistic depiction of violence against children becomes complicit in that violence? Is there an ethical line in fiction between realism that reveals, and sensationalism that exploits?

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Look Familiar? Artist Draws Everyday Items

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 01.24.2012

Read More: Every Day Art, Realistic Art, Young Artists, Janice Wu, Video, Realistic Drawings, Photorealism, Art Student Art, Gouache, Realism, Arts News

Artist Janice Wu says that she believes inanimate objects "can become playful and even precious" with a little simple re-imagining. Her intricate ...

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The French Connection Between Old Books and Current Events

Dave Astor | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: France, Women's Rights, 19th-Century French Literature, French Novels, French Literature, Racism, Big Box Stores, Occupy Wall Street, Economic Inequality, Feminism, Sexuality, Realism, Books News
Dave Astor

Nineteenth-century French novels have a lot to say about our 21st-century world. And I'm not just talking about Jules Verne books that predicted some of today's technological advances.

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Fast Food, Parking Lots And Vermeer: Marc Trujillo's New Show

John Seed | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Fast Food, Painting, Hirschl and Adler, Slidefreestyle, Los Angeles, Marc Trujillo, Vermeer, Kfc, View of Delft, Realism, Slidepollajax, Arts News
John Seed

Los Angeles based artist Marc Trujillo, whose first solo show at Hirshl and Adler opens on November 3rd, paints what he calls the "shared spaces of the everyday." He is attracted to "non-destinations," familiar places where vast expanses of concrete or linoleum numb the senses.

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WATCH: Incredible 3D Drawing Machine

Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Vision, 3d Drawing Machine, Ryan Oakes, Ryan and Trevor Oakes, Perspective, Architecture, Italy, Realism, Video, Oakes Twins, Twin Artists, Twins, Brain, Trevor Oakes, Drawing, Art and Science, Contemporary Art, Eyes, Florence, Arts News

As twin artists, Ryan and Trevor Oakes are familiar with taking a singular experience and realizing it can be split it in two. Their lives have always...

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NASA Teams Up With Sci-Fi Authors

Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: NASA Fiction, Nasa, Fact, Fiction, Science, Technology, Science Fiction, Sci-Fi, Realism, Books News

The genre of science fiction can spawn some spectacularly unscientific flights of fancy in the name of space travel. Thanks to a new collaboration wit...

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PHOTOS: A Painter's Enigmatic View Of Humanity

Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Caravaggio, Exhibition Spotlight, Art, Gustave Courbet, Obsolete Gallery, Van Gogh, Los Angeles, Art Exhibitions, Venice Beach, Realism, Arts News

At once seemingly straightforward and confusing, Goran Djurovic's paintings in "Borrow Light" offer riddles to their viewers. Swathed in the usual tra...

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How To Be An Optimist Without Being Unrealistic

Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Success, Positive Thinking, Optimism, Pessimism, Realism, Unrealistic Optimism, Success Advice, Realistic Optimism, Success Secrets, Success Tips, Self Help, Achieving Goals, Reaching Goals, Healthy Living Mind, Healthy Living News
Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D.

To be successful, you need to understand the very vital difference between believing you will succeed, and believing you will succeed easily. It's the difference between being a realistic optimist and an unrealistic optimist.

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The Politics of Altruism

Dovid Efune | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Natan Sharansky, Henry Kissinger, Egypt Revolution, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Altruism, United Nations, Iran, The Case for Democracy, Realism, Barack Obama, Politics News
Dovid Efune

As widespread unrest throughout the Muslim world continues, A Case for Democracy by former Soviet dissident and Israeli politician Natan Sharansky is ...

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Why Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' Is The Most Overrated Recent Novel

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.26.2011

Read More: Freedom: A Novel, American Fiction, Environmentalism, Oprah's Book Club, Realism, Authors, Bestsellers, Jonathan Franzen, Franzen, Overrated Novel, Middle Class, Book Clubs, Overrated Writer, Oprah Winfrey, Freedom, Overrated American Authors, Books News
Anis Shivani

Jonathan Franzen has written a poignant book about coming of age in the Midwest of the 1970s, the discontents of family, searching for identity in a p...

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Be True to You! - A Philosopher's Message for the New Year

Tom Morris | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Self Knowledge, Genuineness, Philosophy, Freakonomics, Real Housewives, Advice, Fulfillment, Achievement, Seneca, Growth, 2011, Realism, Happiness, Success, Freak Factor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dreams, Socrates, Bravo TV, Russell Simmons, Soren Kierkegaard, Andy Cohen, Authenticity, New Year, Learning, Dave Rendall, Healthy Living News
Tom Morris

Last week, I wrote a Foreword for a friend's new book entitled The Freak Factor. It's a great look at the incredible, outrageous, freakishly wonderful...

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Check Reality Before You Live It

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Acceptance, Potential, Fact, Epistemology, Mindfulness, Perfectionism, Fiction, Reality Check, Realism, Perfection, Healthy Living News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

Reality-check yourself with the following questions: - How many realities are there right now? One, two, none? - Is there just what is or is there ...

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Short Stories

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lori Ostlund, Gina Oschner, Anne Sanow, Belle Boggs, Marisa Silver, Publishing Industry, Mfa, Flash Fiction, Fiction Writing, Creative Writing, Realism, Minimalism, Books News
Anis Shivani

We continue our series on the short story, asking writers how they compare writing short stories to writing novels, the demands the story makes on the...

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Obama's Mideast Policy: An Unpromising Drive Towards a Cost-Effective Pax Americana

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Al Qaeda, Mahmoud Abbas, Democracy Agenda, Somalia, Over the Horizon, George W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft, Lebanon, Iraq, Realism, Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu, Kurds, Jordan, Bill Clinton, Saudi QArabia, Turkey, Sunnis, Yemen, Palestine, Hamas, Barack Obama, Offshore Balancing, Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein, Shiites, Neoconservatives, Israel, Hizbollah, Taliban, George H. W. Bush, Afghanistan, Islamofascism, World News
Leon T. Hadar

President Barack Obama is continuing to reorient U.S. foreign policy in general, and in the Middle East in particular, along the lines of the internationalist/neo-realist approach pursued in the pre-9/11 years

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India's Burma Policy Is Not Pragmatism, It's Realism

Matthew Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Earthrights International, Aung San Suu Kyi, India, Human Rights, Pragmatism, United Nations, Burma, Oil, Environment, Natural Gas, Realism, World News
Matthew Smith

India graciously hosted the Burmese Dictator Than Shwe this week, raising the question as to why the world's largest democracy would welcome one of the world's worst dictators, a man associated with crimes against humanity.

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Acceptance Isn't Surrender

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Acceptance, Change, Existential Courage, Self-Acceptance, Perfectionism, Mindfulness, Realism, Perfection, Healthy Living News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

Acceptance isn't passivity or surrender, but an active engagement in reality, in real time, on its terms. As such, acceptance is realism, a seeing of ...

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Reality Hunger: Shields' Formal Run Down

Alexandra Juhasz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Documentary, Reality TV, Book Review, Reality-Hunger, David Shields, Realism, Home News
Alexandra Juhasz

You could say I "read" David Shield's Reality Hunger yesterday, but as my first nod to the worthy successes (and ballsy failures) of his argument-thro...

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Kouchner's Lament: Misunderstanding the Net

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet Freedom, Brent Scowcroft, Old Media, Bernard Kouchner, David Addington, Editorial Cartels, Realism, Mainstream Media, Internet, Progressive Realism, Christine Okrent, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jean-David Levitte, The Web, New Media, Cyber-Dissidents, Richard Cheney, Humanitarianism, Pierre Vimont, Politics News
Steve Clemons

The internet today -- despite the occasional bouts of disinformation and invented scandal -- is far more of an effective and immediate marketplace of information than the world for which Bernard Kouchner seems to pine.

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Un-Sentimentally Progressive

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Acceptance, Change, Progressive, Time, Ego, Zen Buddhism, Conservative, Obama, Political Dwelling, Sentimentality, Emotional Self-Regulation, Realism, Politics News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

Reality is progressive. And mercilessly so. A non-stop unfolding of what is, reality waits for no political throw-back to lick its ego-wounds. Real...

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Mr. President: Find Your Inner Niebuhr

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Justice, Teddy Roosevelt, Barnstorm, Reinhold Niebuhr, David Brooks, Domestic Politics, President Obama, Power, Realism, Politics News
Paul Brandeis Raushenbush

As Obama stumbles across the first anniversary of his presidency, he needs to find the inner Niebuhr he knew so well on the campaign trail, and especially reflect on his understanding of power.

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Keeping the Wheels on the Obama Presidency

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, White House, Europe, Public Option, Pragmatism, Joseph Lieberman, Economy, Bailouts, Progressives, Compromise, Jobs, Iraq, China, Democratic Party, Realism, Barack Obama, Marriage Equality, Wall Street, Rahm Emanuel, Oresident Obama, Single Payer, Health Care, Russia, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Joe Lieberman, Afghanistan, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

Because he cannot provide peace and prosperity, Obama needs to pass some meaningful legislation to demonstrate that he is doing something positive. Just getting a health care bill passed will mean nothing to many Americans.

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Shifting Gears on Missile Defense Marks a Shift in U.S. Policy Toward Russia, with Immediate Impact on Iran

David Paul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Missile Defense, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Russia Georgia Conflict, Ukraine, Dmitry Medvedev, Realism, Foreign Policy, Dick Cheney, Kosovo Independence, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Sergei Lavrov, Nato, Chechnya, Vladimir Putin, Gwot, Ukraine Gas, World News
David Paul

Ahmadinejad's normal swagger has been muted, perhaps with the realization that his days of manipulating Russia against the West have ended.

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Republican Choice: Reality or Tea Bags

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hugo Chavez, Pakistan, Obama, Taliban, Tea-Bagger, Realism, Reconcilation, Republican Party, Neorealism, Nuclear Weapons, Fox News, Waterboarding, Glenn Beck, Neo-Realism, Rush Limbaugh, Health Care, Tea Party, Republicans, Tea Bagging, Politics News
Michael B. Laskoff

President Obama was a hell of a campaigner - smart, disciplined and highly realistic. He's brought those same qualities to the presidency itself, whic...

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Reality on the Water

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Piracy, Criminals, Obama, Pirates, Realism, Richard Phillips, Ideology, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, World News
Michael B. Laskoff

Could it be that President Obama, Secretary Gates and the Department of Defense also know what they are doing on the ground in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan?

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