David Ebony's guest appearances

David Ebony

The Review Panel

C86 Show - Indie Pop

Redd Kross

Siri Hustvedt

Patti Smith

Steve Howe

James Butler

Lucy Porter

Lou Reed

Jim Jones

David Thomas

Dave Hopkins

James Dean

Ron Johnson

David Clark

Michelle Kuo

John Gill

OwlTail

The Erasers with David Ebony  in conversation with David Eastaugh The Erasers were part of the ‘70s CBGB art-punk scene that included Television and Richard Hell, and though they made a brief appearance on a (long out-of-print) 1982 ROIR compilation, their music and history were lost for decades to everyone outside of a very small circle of critics, collectors, and old punks. But their one excellent, off-kilter single (“Funny/I Won’t Give Up”) is one of the standouts on Numero Group’s comprehensive, painstakingly curated Ork Records: New York, New York box set, which was released to well-deserved acclaim late last year. The Erasers began around 1974, the brainchild of artists Susan Springfield (guitar, vocals) and Jane Fire (drums), who both saw the fine art world they were embedded in as too economically exclusive. “I wanted to do something in a more populist way,” Springfield says. “Fine art as I was doing it – you know, making paintings – you spend so much time on them that you can’t just sell them cheaply, and so at the end of the day I felt like if I continued to pursue [an] art career, I would only be able to sell it to rich people, because I would have to get enough money to support myself. Music, on the other hand – you can make that available – it was more immediate, and at that time the shows were, like, two bucks.” Fire calls their philosophy as a band “the dematerialization of art in the extreme.”

The Erasers with David Ebony  in conversation with David Eastaugh The Erasers were part of the ‘70s CBGB art-punk scene that included Television and Richard Hell, and though they made a brief appearance on a (long out-of-print) <a href="http://www.discogs.com/Various-Singles-The-Great-New-York-Singles-Scene/master/261093" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">1982 ROIR compilation</a>, their music and history were lost for decades to everyone outside of a very small circle of critics, collectors, and old punks. But their one excellent, off-kilter single (“Funny/I Won’t Give Up”) is one of the standouts on Numero Group’s comprehensive, painstakingly curated <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/arts/music/terry-orks-punk-rock-time-capsule-celebrates-a-nihilistic-niche.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ork Records: New York, New York box set</a>, which was released to well-deserved acclaim late last year. The Erasers began around 1974, the brainchild of artists Susan Springfield (guitar, vocals) and Jane Fire (drums), who both saw the fine art world they were embedded in as too economically exclusive. “I wanted to do something in a more populist way,” Springfield says. “Fine art as I was doing it – you know, making paintings – you spend so much time on them that you can’t just sell them cheaply, and so at the end of the day I felt like if I continued to pursue [an] art career, I would only be able to sell it to rich people, because I would have to get enough money to support myself. Music, on the other hand – you can make that available – it was more immediate, and at that time the shows were, like, two bucks.” Fire calls their philosophy as a band “the dematerialization of art in the extreme.”

The Erasers with David Ebony

David Cohen

Carol Diehl

Michael Brenson

March 20, 2009 at the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, New YorkMichael Brenson, Carol Diehl, and David Ebony joined David Cohen to review Kamrooz Aram at Perry Rubinstein, Siah Armajani at Max Protetch, Alfredo Jaar at Galerie Lelong, and Susan Rothenberg at Sperone Westwater.

March 20, 2009 at the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York Michael Brenson, Carol Diehl, and David Ebony joined David Cohen to review Kamrooz Aram at Perry Rubinstein, Siah Armajani at Max Protetch, Alfredo Jaar at Galerie Lelong, and Susan Rothenberg at Sperone Westwater.

The Review Panel #29 - Michael Brenson, Carol Diehl, and David Ebony with moderator David Cohen