New Painting Commission Unveiled for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall
Read the Press Release and see the painting HERE
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L’Encyclopédie et Nous ? Oeuvres et Vidéo de Ken Aptekar on view in Autun, France
READ ARTICLE IN University of Michigan STAMPS SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN NEWSLETTER SEE BREAKING NEWS/FLASH INFO PRINT PORTFOLIO IN EXHIBITION SEE VIDEO IN EXHIBITION SEE A SHORTER ENCYCLOPEDIA PRINT PORTFOLIO IN EXHIBITION SEE VIEWS OF THE EXHIBITION IN AUTUN L’Encyclopédie et nous? Oeuvres et vidéo de Ken Aptekar (The Encyclopedia and Us ? Digital…
NACHBARN in The Hindu–India’s English-language newspaper read by 2 million
Ranvir Shah, cultural philanthropist, publishes feature article in The Hindu: Read it online HERE Content below: LOVE THY NEIGHBOR, June 4, 2016, The Hindu by Ranvir Shah ‘Nachbarn’, Ken Aptekar’s show in Lübeck that ran from February to May, showed how world peace can boil down to simply being good neighbours I first met artist…
Now online: Catalogue Essays for Nachbarn Exhibition
Read the insightful, informative, and provocative essays–in German and English (CLICK AUTHORS’ NAMES): St. Annen Museum Director, Dr. Thorsten Rodiek, author of Das Monumento nazionale Vittorio Emanuele II. in Rom. (Europäische Hochschulschriften Reihe 28 Kunstgeschichte Band 30), P. Lang, Frankfurt/Main – New York – Paris 1983. Zugl.: Stuttgart, Univ., Diss., 1981; James Stirling, die neue…
Feature article on Nachbarn in OYA Magazine
Lara Mallien of OYA Magazine covers Nachbarn in this progressive German magazine. Read ONLINE HERE (and click “Nein, ich möchte kostenfrei weiterlesen” for free access)
Review of Nachbarn in KUNSTFORUM INTERNATIONAL
CLICK HERE TO SEE REVIEW IN KUNSTFORUM INTERNATIONAL (IN GERMAN) [Translated from the German, BELOW] KEN APTEKAR: NACHBARN/NEIGHBORS, Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck, Germany 7 February-29 May 2016 Many years went by before the American artist Ken Aptekar could realize his project. Confronting the expulsion and murder of Jews in Nazi Germany is practically merely…
French psychoanalyst Chantal Maillet’s essay inspired by Nachbarn
Following the opening of the exhibition, Nachbarn/Neighbors, French psychoanalyst Chantal Maillet cast a wise eye on the project from an odd and unpredictable angle: Broken Glass. The writer Caroline Brothers noted that “the most extraordinary symbolism of Chantal Maillet’s story is its echoes, over all the intervening decades, of a Kristallnacht reversed.” You can find…
Nachbarn/Neighbors featured in PRATT NEWSLETTER
CLICK to read Pratt Newsletter article on Nachbarn/Neighbors, “Alumnus Ken Aptekar Explores Religious Tolerance in Unique Exhibition in Lübeck, Germany”
THE GUARDIAN on Nachbarn
Click to read Stuart Jeffries on Ken Aptekar and Nachbarn/Neighbors in Lübeck
German Media on NACHBARN
Review, Kunstforum International, Jens Rönnau, “Ken Aptekar: Nachbarn at Kunsthalle St. Annen, April 2016 (Band 239), READ HERE Front page, Lübecker Nachrichten: http://www.ln-online.de/Nachrichten/Kultur/Kultur-im-Norden/US-Kuenstler-malt-Luebecker-Geschichte German Television: http://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/schleswig-holstein_magazin/Ken-Aptekar-stellt-in-Luebeck-aus,shmag37798.html Best of the North of Germany NDR.de: https://www.ndr.de/kultur/kunst/schleswig-holstein/Nachbarn-Dramen-von-nebenan,aptekar100.html MyHeimat.de: http://www.myheimat.de/luebeck/ratgeber/in-der-luebecker-kunsthalle-bemerkenswerte-und-beeindruckende-werke-des-kuenstlers-ken-aptekar-d2741680.html http://www.hl-live.de/aktuell/textstart.php?id=104493 http://www.luebeckische-blaetter.info/2016/08_LB181.pdf (see pages 140-41) https://www.vile-netzwerk.de/kultur-in-anderen-bereichen/articles/museum-und-synagoge-als-nachbarn.html http://www.altertuemliches.at/termine/ausstellung/37627 http://der-neue-merker.eu/infos-des-tages-sonntag-7-februar-2016 (SCROLL DOWN) http://www.weiss-rote.de/referenzen/st-annen-museum-luebeck/index.html President of Lübeck welcomes Ken Aptekar at Rathaus…