Michael Schwartz is an art historian, art critic, philosopher and author who earned his doctorate at Columbia University and presently teaches at  Augusta University in the Department of Art and Design. He is co-founding executive officer of the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle which is an international professional organization with both a peer-reviewed journal and book series.

Michael has curated and commented on over 50 online integral art galleries at IntegralLife.com. He has publishes work on the topics of art history, art criticism, art education, continental philosophy, comparative spirituality, critical social theory, integral theory, critical realism, comparative metatheory. He is currently co-authoring Dancing with Sophia –the first professional academic volume on integral as philosophy. The book is coming out autumn 2019.

I really appreciate Michael's sensitivity toward the true, the good and the beautiful and how he uses the lens of integral philosophy to explore the processes of art creating, art exhibiting, art viewing, art experiencing as a whole. He integrates elegantly art history, social critic, philosophy and spirituality to invite us to profoundly expand and deepen our experience of the aesthetic.

In this episode I am sure you will love Michael's evident passion for the subject of integral art. I  liked the art that he recommends to us at the end of the interview... particularly his view on the TV series Mad Men! He explains how some pieces of art 'are not necessarily exploring the highest developmental stages that are available to us, not ignoring shadow and narrating the changing lives of people in a specific historical context. Mad Men gives us a sense that even an advertising commercial can be an expression of genuine connective post modern love!' 

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