The New Criterion

Classical Realism is neither classical nor realism. Discuss.

Even away on my roadtrip, I could hear the rolling thunder of this bomb that Maureen Mullarkey of the New York Sun dropped on Jacob Collins’s nudes at Hischl and Adler. Realism is not a style but a ...
Seven Days

Painter Emilie Lee on Classical Realism

The international upswing in traditional realist painting — what’s now being called “classical realism” — has a new face in Vermont: that of Emilie Lee. The 35-year-old returned home to Vermont last ...
The New Criterion

NPR on classical realism

I’ve been engaged for several months with the “back to basics” art movement known as classical realism. (You can read my latest post here). The first article I wrote on the subject appeared in the ...
Harvard Business School

Elder Abuse: How the Moderns Mistreat Classical Realism

Parent, Joseph M., and Josh Baron. "Elder Abuse: How the Moderns Mistreat Classical Realism." International Studies Review 13, no. 2 (June 2011): 193–213.
Brattleboro Reformer

Cat Nunn of Fat Cat Studio brings classical realism to Brattleboro

BRATTLEBORO -The Whetstone Studio for the Arts' newest tenant, Cat Nunn, beams in the new location for her Fat Cat Studio, loving the natural light that saturates the room and the soothing sounds of ...
Wall Street Journal

Classical Realism: Antidote to 'Novelty Art'

In 1959, the critic Clement Greenberg wrote that "the very best painting, the major painting, of our age is almost exclusively abstract." It was a tune Greenberg sang early and often. He said similar ...
Foreign Affairs

The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations

Realism is the oldest and most venerable school of thought in the study of international politics. Thucydides, Hobbes, and Machiavelli provided its classic texts, and Hans Morgenthau, George Kennan, ...