Daniel Rothbart

"[1] Art theorist and curator Enrico Pedrini wrote, "His world of myth prompts one to reconsider the sacred as a point of interaction where icons and symbols converge and undergo changes of meaning."

Studio projects include Inscrutable Theologies, Aachen, Germany;[4] STREAMING II, The Frank Institute @ CR10, Linlithgo, New York;[5] The Rumsey Street Project, Grand Rapids, Michigan;[6] Air de Venise, Venice, Italy; WATERLINES, Galerie Depardieu, Nice, France; La Napoule Art Foundation, Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France.

[13] In 2015, Rothbart wrote an essay and four commentaries on the theme of water-based performance as the lead section of PAJ 111, published by MIT Press.

[15] The Story of the Phoenix (1999) examines American cultural identity, Hollywood, and the transmutation of meaning through digital collages inhabited by his sculpture.

[18] Poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum observes "Rothbart's narrative of Naples bears the freight of a melancholy intrinsic to the act of paying attention to a city that is older and wiser than we will ever live to be.

"[19] Richard Milazzo (Writer/Poet) and Daniel Rothbart (Writer/Collagist), More Fugitive Than Light: Poems of Rome, Venice, Paris, 2016-2017 (Tsukuda Island Press, 2024).

Marks Eglash, Ruth, From New York to Ramle – modern art in an ancient setting puts Israeli city on the map, Jewish Insider, October 2023.

Daniel Rothbart at Château de La Napoule
Daniel Rothbart, Water Clocks: A Floating Sculptural Installation in the Hudson River (detail), curated by Aaron Levi Garvey for The Hudson Eye, September 2021, Henry Hudson Riverfront Park, Southern Slip, Hudson, New York
Cover of the book Seeing Naples: Reports from the Shadow of Vesuvius by Daniel Rothbart, foreword by Wayne Koestenbaum, New York: Edgewise Press, 2018, collage by DKR, conceived by Francine Hunter McGivern.