Boldly addressing the anomaly of a nation experiencing both unprecedented material prosperity and cultural bankruptcy and calling herself a radical for beauty, she frankly spurns twentieth century primitivism, nihilism, deconstructionism and political correctness. As a potent antidote to our cultural malaise, she advocates revitalizing the fundamental tenets of our philosophical heritage (ancient Greece) by imbuing contemporary art created in the established Western heritage art forms--representationalism in the visual arts; melody and harmony in music; structure and ideation in the written arts--with a positive and inspiring content that celebrates the world at its most beautiful and man and woman at their best. No revivalist, she also spurns nostalgia and urges those of us who love life and the art that enhances living to enjoy and enrich our moments on this earth through art experiences that lift our spirits, move us to contemplative thought and remind us why life is worth living.
Alexandra York presently draws from her multi-faceted background to focus on writing and lecturing on the arts and the culture as well as writing fiction.
In addition to authoring five nonfiction books (one a Book-of-the-Month Club selection), Alexandra has also been published in magazine and newspaper articles, book and movie reviews and poetry. In other media, she both wrote and performed a bi-weekly feature on WPIX-TV Channel 11 Evening News in New York and wrote and hosted two different Talk Shows that tracked the contemporary performing arts for ABC Radio Network. As an author, she has been a guest on many major talk shows, including "The Today Show," "Larry King Live," "To Tell the Truth," "AM New York," "AM Los Angeles," "AM Philadelphia," "Wake-Up Houston," ABC's "Eyewitness News," and she has been interviewed on hundreds of radio shows. As a performer, she appeared as principal actress in dozens of TV and radio commercials in America and Europe, culminating that aspect of her career in a year-long tour of the U.S. as an exclusive TV spokeswoman for Clairol, Inc. In person, she has lectured extensively at Town Hall Celebrity Series, private organizations, corporations, and universities.
Alexandra is published in England, Australia, Mexico,South America, Spain, and Russia, as well as the United States and Canada. Aside from her self-help books (Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Van Nostrand, Ballantine and Berkley-Jove), her work has also appeared in publications as varied as Reader's Digest (Domestic and International), Vital Speeches, The New York Times, USA Today, Vogue, New Woman, Chronicles, The Humanist, The Intellectual Activist, Reason, American Arts Quarterly, The Journal of Ayn Rand, The Objectivist Navigator, America Artist, and Confrontation Literary Journal. She was for six years the Editor for ART Ideas, quarterly arts and culture magazine published by American Renaissance for the Twenty-first Century (ART) a New-York-based nonprofit educational arts foundation of which she is the Founding President: www.ART-21.org
Alexandra received the 1997 Whiting Memorial Award for outstanding service to the cultural world from the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry, where she nows serves as an elected Mentor. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who in America. She is a member of The Authors' Guild and The National Arts Club, the latter for which she serves on the Literary Committee. Her latest book (2006) is titled OVER THE YEARS: Poems, Lyrics, Songs, Prose. Her novel, CROSSPOINTS A Novel of Choice--set in New York's controversial art world explores the subject of free will, pertaining especially to romantic, personal, and artistic choices--was published in America in 2004, Russia in 2007, and worldwide Spnish translation in 2010. With her husband, Barrett Randell, she divides her time between New York City, Bucks County, PA and Vermont.
