David Ebony
David Ebony, is the editor of snapSHOT of the Art World. He is a longtime Art in America staff member. He has written for Art in America numerous features, reviews, and news items on a wide range of subject matter and artists, including Per Kirkeby, Piero Gilardi, Antoni Tàpies, and Katharina Grosse. Ebony has most recently become a columnist for the website Yale ARTbooks, Yale University Press. He has also written a number of exclusive articles for the A.i.A. website as well as Artnet.com. Ebony also contributes to Lacanian Ink, a journal of psychoanalysis and art. 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]. Formerly a musician and songwriter, Ebony has had one of his 1983 compositions, “Gun Shaft City,” recently recorded by Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music fame, which was released in 2014. Recent exhibition catalogues produced by SNAP Editions featuring Ebony’s writing include Larry Poons: Momentum. Rock band, The Erasers MA Hunter College, New York Art in America editor 1991-2014


Top 10 New York Gallery Exhibitions of 2024

Stranger Things: The 2024 Venice Biennale

Malcolm Morley at Petzel Gallery

Amei Wallach’s “Taking Venice”

Czech-born, New York artist Pavel Kraus (1946-2024)

Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: The Whitney Biennial Top 10

Wim Wenders’s “ANSELM”

David Ebony’s Top 10: Winter 2024

David Ebony’s Top 10: Spring 2022

David Ebony’s Top 10: Summer 2021

David Ebony’s Top 10: Fall 2020

Top 10 New York Gallery Exhibitions Caught In The Covid-19 Shutdown

10 Highlights of the 2020 Armory Show
