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David Ebony

New York, United States

Managing Editor at Art in America

Author, art person, songwriter, and devoted husband.

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  • 4 days ago | themagazineantiques.com | David Ebony

    Works by artist Nancy Elizabeth Prophet are rare and seldom exhibited because fewer than two dozen are known to exist. Nearly all of them are included in Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I Will Not Bend an Inch, the first-ever museum survey devoted to this elusive American artist, whose important contributions to twentieth-century art, especially in the field of sculpture, have only lately been fully recognized.

  • Aug 29, 2024 | sothebys.com | David Ebony

    “Every true publisher builds up, knowingly or otherwise, a single book consisting of the all the books he publishes.” - ROBERTO CALASSO, THE ART OF THE PUBLISHER The Abrams Family, North Salem, 2012. Originally published in Architectural Digest. Image © Pieter Estersohn @ Art Department NY. Architect: Joel Barkley of Ike, Kligerman and Barkley Publishing is a lot like art collecting.

  • Apr 1, 2024 | brooklynrail.org | David Ebony

    ArtSeen On View Lisson GalleryPaintings on PaperMarch 7–April 13, 2024New York “I like straight lines, I like angles, I like order,” Carmen Herrera remarked in a 1994 interview. “In this chaos that we live in, I like to put order. I guess that’s why I am a hard-edged painter, a geometric painter.” When she died in 2022, at age 106, the Cuban-born New-York-based artist left behind a legacy of a carefully calibrated singularity of vision.

  • Oct 4, 2023 | themagazineantiques.com | David Ebony

    Sometimes an artwork can be too famous. Over time, such works tend to become roadblocks to a deeper and fuller understanding of an artist’s full body of work. Edvard Munch’s icon of angst, The Scream (1893), is one of those universally recognized images that often overshadow much of the artist’s formidable achievement. Fortunately for Munch and his legacy, a number of recent museum exhibitions have served to rectify the situation by practically sidelining The Scream.

  • Aug 28, 2023 | themagazineantiques.com | David Ebony

    The remarkable biographies of some self-taught and outsider artists can sometimes overshadow the art itself, while the lives of others—Henry Darger or Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, to name two examples—are tame or inconsequential compared with the wild abandon of their artworks. One self-taught artist, however, has an exceptional life story, expressed in written form and in equally compelling and adventurous works of art.

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