David Ebony is the editor of snapSHOT of the Art World and a longtime Art in America staff member. He has written numerous features, reviews, and news items on artists including Per Kirkeby, Piero Gilardi, Antoni Tàpies, and Katharina Grosse. Ebony is also a columnist for the website Yale ARTbooks, Yale University Press. Ebony also contributes to Lacanian Ink, a journal of psychoanalysis and art, and Artnet. He is the author of monographs on a number of artists, including Emily Mason (Braziller, 2006); Botero: Abu Ghraib (Prestel, 2006); Craigie Horsfield: Relation (Jeu de Paume, 2006); and Carlo Maria Mariani (Edition Volker Huber, 2002). A former musician and songwriter, Ebony's 1983 composition "Gun Shaft City" was recorded by Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry and released in 2014.
