| Type | Title | Author | Date |
| Review | A Romantic Manifesto | William Thomas | 5/1/2004 |
| Description: Fans of Ayn Rand have long awaited a new novel similar to hers in ideas and idealism. They may well find what they have been seeking in Alexandra York's recently published Crosspoints. |
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| Perspectives | An Israeli Airman Attains New Heights in Painting | Michelle Fram-Cohen | 5/1/2004 |
| Description: When Uri Gil retired from the Israeli air force, he was the oldest combat pilot in the world still on active reserve duty. He was also an accomplished painter, whose quest for beauty has led him to master the oil-and-tempera technique of Jan van Eyck |
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| Article | Mozart's Don Giovanni: An Enlightenment Hero? | John Kerns | 5/1/2004 |
| Description: The greatest of the Enlightenment's composers chose as one of his chief protagonists the seducer Don Giovanni. Did Mozart mean to present the Don as a symbol of independent thinking and action? Or is he supposed to be a dissolute roué who gets his just deserts by being dragged down to Hell? |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: The Fine Arts | | 5/1/2004 |
| Description: What Art is By Louis Torres and Michelle Marder Kamhi; From the Fountainhead to the Future, and Other Essays on Art and Excellence By Alexandra York; Human Accomplishment By Charles Murray; Music in Western Civilization By Paul Henry Lang |
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| Review | The Silver Screen as Philosophic Mirror | Russell La Valle | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: Cultures have a sense of life, just as people do, and that sense of life sets the trends and styles of the culture. With that in mind, it is illuminating to look at the films nominated in the ''Best Picture'' category of the Academy Awards during the last two years. |
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| FAQ | FAQ: What does Objectivism Consider to be Art (Aesthetics) | William Thomas | 3/15/2002 |
| Description: Just as language is distinctively human, so is art. Every human society has imagined and recreated its world in stories and music, in pictures and sculpture, and in derivative forms of art such as theater and dance. In fact, art is a distinctively human institution because it fulfills a vital need of human consciousness. And aesthetic issues can be analyzed objectively, like any aspect of reality. |
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| Article | Romanticism is Dead! Long Live Romanticism! | Michelle Fram-Cohen | 1/11/2002 |
| Description: Victor Hugo wrote Ninety-Three to revive Romanticism. A century later, Ayn Rand wrote The Romantic Manifesto for the same purpose, and she included her "Introduction" to Ninety-Three as a key chapter. Michelle Fram-Cohen explains why it was the perfect choice. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Victor Hugo and Romanticism | | 1/11/2002 |
| Description: Suggested Readings: Victor Hugo and Romanticism, including a biography by Graham Robb, Hugo's poems, 'Romanticism and its Discontents,' and 'Classic, Romantic, and Modern' |
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| Commentary | The Irrelevance of the Avant-Garde | Eric Barnhill | 11/7/2001 |
| Description: Internationally known concert pianist Eric Barnhill observes that composers can offer us nothing today, musically or intellectually. |
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| Letters | Letters: Art and Education (Aug 2001) | | 8/10/2001 |
| Description: In response to the Navigator interview with Alexandra York about art, education, and Ayn Rand. |
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| Interview | Alexandra York and ART | | 6/1/2001 |
| Description: Sidebar to main interview with Alexandra York |
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| Interview | Art And Education | | 6/1/2001 |
| Description: In this exclusive interview, Alexandra York, president of American Renaissance for the Twenty-First Century, argues that art is fundamental to a well-rounded education. |
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| Interview | Satisfying the Soul: An Interview with Michael Newberry | | 9/1/1999 |
| Description: An interview with painter Michael Newberry. |
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| Excerpt | Why Man Needs Art | William Thomas | 8/1/1999 |
| Description: An excerpt from the forthcoming Logical Structure of Objectivism |
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| Excerpt | Ayn Rand and Tragedy | Kirsti Minsaas | 12/1/1996 |
| Description: At the Institute's 1996 Summer Seminar, Kirsti Minsaas, a graduate student at the University of Oslo, Norway, presented two lectures on Ayn Rand and Tragedy. Following are relatively brief excerpts from the first lecture. |
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| Excerpt | Concept Formation and the Fiction of Ayn Rand | Kirsti Minsaas | 11/1/1995 |
| Description: An excerpt from a lecture given by Kirsti Minsaas at the 1995 IOS Summer Seminar on the Rand used her theory of concept-formation in her literary theory. |
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| Excerpt | Structure and Meaning in Ayn Rand's Novels | Kirsti Minsaas | 12/1/1994 |
| Description: Excerpts from Kirsti Minsaas's talk on the Structure and Meaning in Ayn Rand's Novels |
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| Excerpt | The Literary Achievement of The Fountainhead | Stephen Cox | 9/1/1993 |
| Description: Excerpt from the 50th Anniversary Celebration of The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand |
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| Study Guide | Foundations Study Guide: Literary Theory | Stephen Cox | |
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