FILM COMMENTS

March 4, 2024

ANSELM (2023) directed by Wim Wenders   Wim Wenders’s visually stunning and conceptually problematic film Anselm is perhaps not aimed toward an audience for whom Anselm Kiefer is a household name. Ostensibly a documentary about the formidable and influential German artist, the film is unapologetically engaged in the business of mythmaking. During the course of […]

Egypt: Three Encounters with Contemporary Art

August 19, 2022

I. Between visiting the five-thousand-year-old pyramids of Giza and heading south to the Valley of the Kings, where four thousand years ago ancient Egyptians began to cut tombs for their pharaohs, I toured Zamalek, a Manhattan-shaped island in the Nile River near Cairo. Thrumming with international students and filled with posh cafes, Zamalek is also […]

David Ebony’s Top 10 / NYC Spring

April 29, 2022

Below is a selection of some of the most memorable New York City art exhibitions of the season. The list contains museum as well as gallery shows, most of which are currently on view, and not to be missed. 1.) Charles Ray at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, through June 5.   This […]

Helen Pashgian: Presences

March 5, 2022

Helen Pashgian’s immersive retrospective at SITE Santa Fe brings the viewer into a semantic space that toggles with the space of pure perception. The viewer sees and then begins to think and question: What is one looking at? Where does the object begin in a controlled environment and where does it end? What is meant […]

Art In Every Way: Sophie Taeuber-Arp at MoMA

February 3, 2022

The Museum of Modern’s Art’s survey of Sophie Taueber-Arp, Living Abstraction, and the oeuvre it presents, is mesmerizing, so much so that I have been back to immerse myself in the world of Taeuber-Arp more than once. With the exception of certain problematic contextual gaps, I found the exhibition, like the work, to be simultaneously […]

In a mirror, darkly

November 16, 2021

Artists wrestle with the state of and effects of the Information Age at Kunsthalle Basel In 1970, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York showed Information, a group exhibition inspired by the beginning of what has now been termed the Information Age. Marked by the new and ever-increasing ability for people to access […]