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

Nick Cave at Jack Shainman Gallery

To inaugurate its spectacular new downtown New York flagship space at 46 Lafayette Street, near City Hall, Jack Shainman Gallery…

Top 10 New York Gallery Exhibitions of 2024

1.) Bruce Nauman at Sperone Westwater. An exhibition of new works by Bruce Nauman always offered a unique and exhilarating experience if…

Stranger Things: The 2024 Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale offers a more pleasant and far more potent experience after the feverish Vernissage. During those frenzied preview…

Malcolm Morley at Petzel Gallery

Those who knew him, even on a professional level, as I did, recognized that his eccentric, dynamic personality—full of wit…

Amei Wallach’s “Taking Venice”

Little-seen still photos and film footage of Rauschenberg at work make Taking Venice requisite viewing for anyone interested in American…

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

Known for abstract paintings, sculptures, and installations in encaustic, glass, marble, and experimental materials such as natural resins, Pavel Kraus…

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

One of the best reasons to visit this year's Whitney Biennial is Isaac Julien's immersive multiscreen video installation.

Wim Wenders’s “ANSELM”

Ostensibly a documentary about the formidable and influential German artist, the film is unapologetically engaged in the business of mythmaking.

David Ebony’s Top 10: Winter 2024

A prominent motif in the paintings are nocturnal snowfalls—allover compositions on canvas with slick surfaces made of countless layers of…

David Ebony’s Top 10: Spring 2022

Below is a selection of some of the most memorable New York City art exhibitions of the season. The list…

David Ebony’s Top 10: Summer 2021

This spring and summer, New York City’s art scene clearly began to recover its energy—and audiences—after a full year of…

David Ebony’s Top 10: Fall 2020

As New York City galleries and museums begin to reopen this fall, masks and social distancing are mandatory. Some proprietors…

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

Highlights of New York Contemporary Art Galleries at the Shutdown As Covid-19 spread, with social distancing restrictions in place and…

10 Highlights of the 2020 Armory Show

1. Tracey Emin at Galeria Lorcan O’Neill In this particular moment of apprehension and anxiety in the midst of the…

David Ebony’s 10 Highlights of The Art Show 2020

1. Pablo Picasso at Jeffrey H. Loria & Co. Each year The Art Show, hosted by the Art Dealers Association…