Born in Detroit, Michigan, artist Ken Aptekar is best known for works that combine new versions of historical paintings with text. His works have been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, and The New Museum, New York. Aptekar has received two National Endowment in the Arts fellowships, a Rockefeller Residency at Bellagio, and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award. He lives in Paris and New York.
This cup and saucer set features a portrait of Jewish German banker Isaac Daniel Itzig and a picture of one of his homes in Berlin, the Bartholdy Meierei (Bartholdi dairy) on Köpenickerstrasse…
It would not seem proper, most magnificent Lady, that now we are about to print the Bible in our Spanish tongue, translated from the Hebrew word for word—so rare a work never before known until our…
It is traditional to begin a new magazine with brave declarations. If we do not, we trust we shall be forgiven.
We begin at a moment heavy with a sense of human destiny. Every schoolboy who listens to…