New Painting Commission Unveiled for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall
Watch the Live Ceremony and Performance at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall HERE Read the Press Release HERE
A SHORTER ENCYCLOPEDIA
A SHORTER ENCYCLOPEDIA (2003), six archival inkjet prints 57cm x 76.5cm, is inspired by Madame de Pompadour. Although Pompadour managed to convince Louis XV to support the publication of the Encyclopédie, the knowledge it offered the French did not include answers to questions that Aptekar thought might be central to her life. So he created a kind…
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…
BIBLIOTHÉQUE BUSSY-RABUTIN, Autun, France / L’ENCYCLOPÉDIE ET NOUS ? Oeuvre et Vidéo de Ken Aptekar
Breaking News/Flash Info Portfolio
BREAKING NEWS/FLASH INFO (2019), eleven archival inkjet prints 80cm x 80cm, draws on images from plates in the French Encyclopédie (Denis Diderot & Jean le Rond D’Alembert, 1751) to heighten awareness of rising threats to knowledge-based reasoning, scientific evidence, and to personal freedom in the face of authoritarian manipulations.
Because I Want To
BECAUSE I WANT TO, 2018, 35″ x 35″, oil/wood, sandblasted glass with lacquered letters, bolts After Hyacinthe Rigaud, Portrait of Louis XV age five, c. 1715, Versailles, Chateau de Versailles
Recent Silverpoint Drawings with Glass
(MY) MALEVICH SELF-PORTRAIT, 2017, 21-5/8″ x 21-5/8″, silverpoint on prepared paper, sandblasted glass, frame, after Kazimir Malevich, Self-portrait, 1908
Nachbarn Review in Kunstforum International (German)
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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…