"[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.