{"id":3029,"date":"2023-10-23T17:31:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T21:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2023-10-23T17:32:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T21:32:22","slug":"respected-art-and-architecture-critic-to-join-common-sense-society-as-senior-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/nl\/2023\/10\/23\/respected-art-and-architecture-critic-to-join-common-sense-society-as-senior-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Respected Art and Architecture Critic to Join Common Sense Society as Senior Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, D.C.<\/strong>\u2014Common Sense Society<\/a> (CSS), a leading international educational network, is pleased to welcome widely published architecture and art critic Catesby Leigh as senior fellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cArt and architecture play a unique role in fulfilling our deep, human need for beauty and a sense of home,\u201d said CSS president and C.E.O. Marion Smith. \u201cToday, we are witnessing a tragic departure from more humane forms, and the consequences are far more devastating than we realize. I was honored to work alongside Catesby at the National Civic Art Society and look forward to his contributions at Common Sense Society where promoting beauty and enduring art is central to our mission.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCivic art and architecture involve building more value\u2014not just economic value but cultural and spiritual value\u2014into the world we build,\u201d said Catesby Leigh. \u201cThe idealization of form and structure in our monuments and buildings and the creation of harmonious urban spaces make us at home in the world while nurturing a civic symbolism appropriate to our quest for a more perfect union. I look forward to discussing beauty\u2019s crucial role in the renewal of our civilization alongside my new colleagues at Common Sense Society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Catesby Leigh<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Catesby Leigh is a senior fellow at CSS and a past co-founder and research fellow of the National Civic Art Society. After graduating from Princeton, he spent most of the 1980s as a foreign correspondent for the Atlanta-based Cox Newspapers in South America. He grew increasingly interested in traditional architectural environments and was struck by their modernist counterparts\u2019 failure to achieve comparable levels of physical or visual amenity. Leigh\u2019s first architecture articles appeared in 1991, and since then he has contributed art and architecture criticism to a wide range of publications including City Journal<\/em>, The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, First Things<\/em>, The American Conservative<\/em>, and the Claremont Review of Books<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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