Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel, “Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980,”
Oxford University Press, New York and London, 2005 [ PDF ]

Heinz Stahlhut, “The Fascination with the Mechanical,”
in exhibition catalog of the same name, Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland, 2005 [ PDF ]

Astrid Bextermoller, “Ken Aptekar,”
Catalog entry essay in “The Fascination with the Mechanical”), Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland, 2005 [ PDF ]

Jean-Jacques Joffret, “Dialogues sur La Chasse Humaine de Monsieur K.A.,”
Catalog essay for Ken Aptekar: La Chasse Humaine, Espace d'Art Contemporain Camille Lambert, Juvisy, France, 2005 [ PDF ]

Morgan Prigent, Introductory catalog essay in Ken Aptekar: La Chasse Humaine, Espace d'Art Contemporain Camille Lambert, Juvisy, France, 2005 [ PDF ]

Eleanor Heartney, A Capital Collection, Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Surrey, UK, Third Millenium Publishing Limited with the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002 [ PDF ]

Paige Turner, Catalog entry essay
in A Capital Collection, Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Surrey, UK, Third Millenium Publishing Limited with the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002 [ PDF ]

Nicholas Mirzoeff, “Eye Glasses,” in Eye Contact,
Paintings by Ken Aptekar, Rochester, NY, Memorial Art Gallery, 2002 [ PDF ]

Barbara Pollack, “Lysis at Pamela Auchincloss Project Space,” (reproduction),
Artnews, February, 2003, p. 128 [ PDF ]

Dominique Nahas, “Lysis at Pamela Auchincloss,” (reproduction),
D'Art International, February, 2003

Dinah Ryan, “Review—Angels? Rembrandt? Recent Skeptical Works by Ken Aptekar at Contemporary Art Center of Virginia,” Art Papers, Sept/Oct, 2002, pp. 41-42 [ PDF ]

Frank Green, “Ken Aptekar: Painting Between the Lines, 1990-2000,”
Northern Ohio Live, February, 2002 [ PDF ]

Kate Hackman, “Artist puts meaning between the lines,”
Kansas City Star, September 30, 2001, p. I1-3 [ PDF ]

Susie Lulaki, “Ken Aptekar, real people, old masters,”
Review (a Kansas City monthly), October, 2001, p. 44 [ PDF ]

Charles Saumarez-Smith, “This into that,”
(exhibition review), things, Summer 2001, p. 59-62

Carly Berwick, “Van Rijn on the Hudson, ”
ArtNews, Summer, 2001, p. 46 [ PDF ]

Alisa Turner, “Sleek forms package the unexpected,”
Miami Herald, April 3, 2001 (Living & Arts Section) [ PDF ]

Richard Dorment, “Museums of moving images,”
The Daily Telegraph, (London, UK), January 31, 2001, p. 27 (Arts) [ PDF ]

Stuart Jeffries, “Power to the people,”
The Guardian (London, UK), January 15, 2001, p. 14 [ PDF ]

Suzanne Chesler, “Painting with words,”
Detroit Jewish News, September 17, 1999, p. 85-7 [ PDF ]

Art on Paper, "Working Proof," Review of "Red Read,"
January-February, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1999, p. 50 [ PDF ]

Norman Bryson, “The Viewer Speaks,”
Art in America, February, 1999, pp. 98-101 [ PDF ]

Rebecca Little, “Personal events merge with Jewish traditions and art history,”
Downtown (NY), April 26, 1999, p. 12 [ PDF ]

Helen Harrison, “Surrealism, Traditionalism, and Re-Visionism,”
New York Times, October 11, 1998, p. 26

Carrie A.A. Frye, “Goodbye, Hello, Landscape Painting, Taking in the view from Beyond the Mountains,” Xpress, Ashville, NC April 8, 1998

Charlotte Safavi, “Deconstructing Rembrandt: Ken Aptekar takes another view of the master with Rembrandt Redux,” Folio Weekly, Jacksonville, FL, April 7, 1997, p. 36 [ PDF ]

Scott Heller, “Other Voices, Other Rooms,”
Art News, April, 1998, p. 34

Robert Siegel, Interview about “Ken Aptekar: Talking to Pictures”
at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, All Things Considered, NPR, aired October 24, 1997 [ INTERVIEW ]

Glenn Dixon, “Ken Aptekar: Talking to Pictures,”
Washington City Paper, October 24, 1997, p. 86 [ PDF ]

Jo Ann Lewis, “A Fresh Layer of Meaning,”
Washington Post, November 8, 1997, p. C1

Albert Boime, “Aptekar's Family Album,”
Catalog essay for “Ken Aptekar: Talking to Pictures,” Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1997 [ PDF ]

Terrie Sultan, Introductory catalog essay for “Ken Aptekar: Talking to Pictures,”
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1997 [ PDF ]

Devorah Kanaff, “Standing Out, Blending In, Knowing Oneself,”
San Diego Union-Tribune, February 16, 1997, E9

“The National Art Scene,”
New York Times, January 5, 1997, p. 17

Robin Cembalist, “Paintings That Get Personal,”
The Forward, October 25, 1996, p. 8 [ PDF ]

Mieke Bal, Traveling Concepts in the Humanities, A Rough Guide,
Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2002

“Paintings “R” Us,”
Catalog essay for “Companion Portraits: A Collaborative Project by Rembrandt van Rijn & Ken Aptekar,” Pamela Auchincloss Project Space, New York, 2001 [ PDF ]

“Memories in the Museum: Preposterous Histories for Today,”
essay on “Ken Aptekar: Talking to Pictures” exhibition in Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present, Eds., Mieke Bal, Jonathan Crewe, and Leo Spitzer, University Press of New England

Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History,
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1999 [ PDF 1 ] [ PDF 2 ]

Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of the Narrative, 2nd Ed.,
Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1997 [ PDF ]

Over Kunst, Literatuur en Filosofie: Liber Amicarum.
Eds. H.J. Pott, V. Vasterling, R. Van de Vall, and K. Vintges., Amsterdam, Boom, 1997

“Larger Than Life: Reading the Corcoran Collection”
Catalog essay for “Ken Aptekar: Talking to Pictures,” Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1997 [ PDF ]

Gabrielle Chwallek, “Nasen und Nasenstuber,”
Allgemeine Judische Wochenzeitung, Bonn, Germany, October 2, 1996 [ PDF ]

Michael Kimmel, “Too Jewish? What Do You Mean By That? Izzat a Stereotype?....”
Westsider, April 11, 1996

Aernout Hagen, “Ken Aptekar kiest uit Rembrandts hoedencollectie,”
Kroniek van Het Rembrandthuis (Chronicle of the Rembrandt House), 1995, no. 1 [ PDF ]

Gerald Silk, “Reframes and Refrains: Artists Rethink Art History,”
Art Journal (CAA), Fall, 1995, p. 10–11

Ken Aptekar, “Dear Rembrandt,”
Art Journal (CAA), Fall, 1995, p. 12–13

“Why I Went for Baroque,”
The Walters Monthly Bulletin, April, 1996, p. 4-5 [ PDF ]

“On Painting an American Jewish Picture,”
Jewish Currents, October, 1996, p. 5-7

Graham Shearing, “Remarkable Rembrandt: Three shows celebrate the artist,”
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, January 15, 1995, p. E5

Donald Miller, “Contemporary shows join with Rembrandt etchings,”
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, February 4, 1995, p. C6

Nancy Grimes, “Ken Aptekar at Jack Shainman,”
Art in America, November, 1994, pp.130-1

Robert G. Edelman, “The Figure Returns: 43rd Corcoran Biennial,”
Art in America, March, 1994, pp. 39-43

Howard Risatti, “43rd Corcoran Biennial,”
ARTFORUM, March, 1994, p. 92

Charlene Roth, “Bad Girls,”
Artweek, March 10, 1994, pp. 20-1

Wendy Hawley-Ruppel, “Remaking the Past in Our Own Image,”
Catalogue Essay for “New Old Masters”, February, 1994

Christopher Knight, “Bad Girls: Feminism on Wry,”
Los Angeles Times, February 8, 1994, p.4, Calendar

Nicole Cavazos, “Feminist Rage, Bad Girls West takes Hollywood by Groin at Wight Art Gallery,”
Daily Bruin, January 25,1994, pp. 14-15

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, “And When They Were Bad...,”
Los Angeles Times, January 16, 1994, pp. 4, 77

Martha McWilliams, “Go Figure,”
Washington City Paper, November 12, 1993, p. 43

Kenneth Baker, “Contemporary Painting Celebrated in D.C.,”
San Francisco Chronicle, November 7, 1993, pp. 46-47

Eric Gibson, “Who are the new stars of painting?”
The Washington Times, November 2, 1993, p. C17

Gary Sangster, “Ken Aptekar,”
Catalogue essay for 43rd Corcoran Biennial of American Painting, October, 1994 [ PDF ]

Hank Burchard, “Out of the Fire, Into the Melting Pot,”
The Washington Post, October 29, 1993, p 56

Helen Shortal, “Bodily Fluids: School 33 Deconstructs the Birds and the Bees,”
City Paper, Baltimore, March 6, 1992, p. 22

Vivien Raynor, “‘Bedrooms' and Drawings,”
The New York Times, February 17, 1991, p. 14

Elizabeth Hess, “Yesterday's Children,”
The Village Voice, December 4, 1990, p. 93

Gerrit Henry, “Ken Aptekar at Bess Cutler,”
Art in America, June, 1990, p. 179-80 [ PDF ]

James Saslow, “Rethinking Masculinity: Ken Aptekar,”
The Advocate, May 22, 1990, pp. 54-55 [ PDF ]

Robert Atkins, “New This Week: Ken Aptekar,”
Seven Days, December 5, 1989 [ PDF ]

David McCracken, “Exhibit has its fun and its serious sides,”
Chicago Tribune, March 10, 1989

William Zimmer, “Kenneth Aptekar at Sid Deutsch,”
Arts Magazine, May, 1984 [ PDF ]

Grace Glueck, “Critics' Choices,”
The New York Times, June 20, 1982

William Zimmer, “Ken Aptekar,”
Soho Weekly News, November 22, 1979