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SIDE B: the sounds, opening with/inspired by Roy DeCarava’s work, and love of jazz 🖤
Sept 19–Oct 24

Come in and put a record on.
Stay tuned to @sidebdz for programming updates.

Shout out to Danny Tchibinda for helping me get the sound juuuuuuuust right 🤓

Shout to the original Haynes aka Shaft and our SGM days
Forever stuntin like my daddy 🔈🔉🔊

616 N Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA taken in David Zwirner by @ebotron

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a month ago

Opening this Saturday in Los Angeles!!
I’m so thrilled and honored to have had the privilege of working on this show for months!!
131 prints of shadows, light, and silver. It’s been emotional—in the best way.
I hope you can see it 🩶🩶🩶 taken in David Zwirner by @ebotron

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a month ago

magazine issue zero. chapter seven zine.

A visual mixtape.

Curation EBONY L. HAYNES

Text MAHORO SEWARD

1. Nandi Loaf, Ever, 2024
Installation view
King’s Leap, New York, NY
Courtesy the artist and King’s Leap
Photography: Stephen Faught

2. Anthony Discenza, solo presentation curated by Anthony Elms, 2026
TD Bank Curated Spotlight at NADA,
New York, NY
Courtesy the artist and Post Times
Photography: OFF Photography

3. Cameron Rowland, New York State Unified Court System, 2016
Oak wood, distributed by Corcraft
165 x 57 ½ x 36 inches
(419.10x146.05x91.44 cm)
Rental at cost
Courtrooms throughout New York State use benches built by prisoners in Green Haven Correctional Facility. The court reproduces itself materially through the labor of those it sentences.
Rental at cost: Artworks indicated as
“Rental at cost” are not sold. Each of these artworks may be rented for 5 years for the total cost of the Corcraft products that constitute it.
Image courtesy the artist and Maxwell
Graham, New York

4. Kira Lynn Harris, Prism, Mirror, Lens,
2009
Installation view
CUE Art, New York, NY
Photography: Brian Carter

5. Jay Payton, The Cruel and Violent
Nature of Domesticated Homo Sapiens,
2025
Installation view
15 Orient, New York, NY
Photography: Sebastian Bach

6. Martin Kippenberger, Per Pasta ad Astra, 2026
Installation view
Zweigstelle Capitain IX at C.A.S.A.
Palazzo Degas, Naples
© Estate of Martin Kippenberger, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Photography: Daniele Molajoli

7. Robert Therrien, No title (folding table and chairs, dark brown), 2007
Installation view
The Broad, Los Angeles
Photography: Joshua White

8. Peter Doig, House of Music, 2026
Installation view
Serpentine South Gallery, London
© Peter Doig. All Rights Reserved.
Courtesy the artist
Photography: Prudence Cuming

9. Rhea Dillon, The Sombre Majesty (or, on being the pronounced dead), 2022
Installation view
Soft Opening, London
Courtesy the artist and Soft
Opening, London
Photography: Theo Christelis

10. Václav Požárek, One or Five, 2026
Installation view
15 Orient, NY
Photography: Sebastian Bach by @ebotron

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a month ago

magazine issue zero.

A visual mixtape.

Curation EBONY L. HAYNES

Text MAHORO SEWARD

1. Nandi Loaf, Ever, 2024
Installation view
King’s Leap, New York, NY
Courtesy the artist and King’s Leap
Photography: Stephen Faught

2. Anthony Discenza, solo presentation curated by Anthony Elms, 2026
TD Bank Curated Spotlight at NADA,
New York, NY
Courtesy the artist and Post Times
Photography: OFF Photography

3. Cameron Rowland, New York State Unified Court System, 2016
Oak wood, distributed by Corcraft
165 x 57 ½ x 36 inches
(419.10x146.05x91.44 cm)
Rental at cost
Courtrooms throughout New York State use benches built by prisoners in Green Haven Correctional Facility. The court reproduces itself materially through the labor of those it sentences.
Rental at cost: Artworks indicated as
“Rental at cost” are not sold. Each of these artworks may be rented for 5 years for the total cost of the Corcraft products that constitute it.
Image courtesy the artist and Maxwell
Graham, New York

4. Kira Lynn Harris, Prism, Mirror, Lens,
2009
Installation view
CUE Art, New York, NY
Photography: Brian Carter

5. Jay Payton, The Cruel and Violent
Nature of Domesticated Homo Sapiens,
2025
Installation view
15 Orient, New York, NY
Photography: Sebastian Bach

6. Martin Kippenberger, Per Pasta ad Astra, 2026
Installation view
Zweigstelle Capitain IX at C.A.S.A.
Palazzo Degas, Naples
© Estate of Martin Kippenberger, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Photography: Daniele Molajoli

7. Robert Therrien, No title (folding table and chairs, dark brown), 2007
Installation view
The Broad, Los Angeles
Photography: Joshua White

8. Peter Doig, House of Music, 2026
Installation view
Serpentine South Gallery, London
© Peter Doig. All Rights Reserved.
Courtesy the artist
Photography: Prudence Cuming

9. Rhea Dillon, The Sombre Majesty (or, on being the pronounced dead), 2022
Installation view
Soft Opening, London
Courtesy the artist and Soft
Opening, London
Photography: Theo Christelis

10. Václav Požárek, One or Five, 2026
Installation view
15 Orient, NY
Photography: Sebastian Bach by @ebotron

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🎧 DIALOGUES New Episode • A Curator’s Guide to Visiting the Venice Biennale • Listen now via the link in bio

Global head of curatorial projects Ebony L. Haynes (@ebotron) and Whitney Museum curator Adrienne Edwards get together to share their personal highlights from the Venice Biennale as well as a few pro moves for navigating the world’s largest biennial.

📍 Essential listening if you’re heading to Venice.

+ Subscribe wherever you listen to receive updates on new episodes.
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⁣⁣⁣⁣#DZDialogues by @ebotron

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Working on my album again🖖🏾💭🔮

1. Dolph @youngdolph ♾️
2. Not Band @not_band1
3. Trombone solo for black mental heath 🖤
4. Full moon @thatbulmoon
5. Ohelen @neohle by @ebotron

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Shirin Neshat, Turbulent (1998) installed at 99 Canal during the fourth edition of 5x5 on June 5th, 2025 ✨
@shirin__neshat

Read Ebony L. Haynes full text “The Need for Turbulence” on our Substack! LINK IN BIO @ebotron

—- Experiencing Turbulent as it was intended—installed in a space, not simply viewed on YouTube—offers insight into what our projected identities, both as individuals and collectives, might feel like. It’s a rumbling that makes you uneasy and short of breath. It forces you to stand firm, on one leg or the other, or risk buckling at the knees. We should all be so lucky as to experience more than one turbulent moment—moments we can interpret as empowering mirrors, and hopefully as a call to action.

As part of the fourth edition, 5x5 presents live, in-progress work by five artists across five days, each paired with a curator invited to respond with a text. Every collaboration is entirely self-directed, with no prescribed format, outcome, or expectation. Conceived as a low-stakes framework, 5x5 creates space for experimentation, exchange, and open dialogue. taken in Chinatown, New York, New York by @ebotron

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4 months ago

SW: What is your favourite means of subverting traditional white cube frameworks?

ELH: I love this question; my favourite means of subverting it is by embracing it and not pretending. It’s been so important for me to be upfront about my desire for a for-profit gallery. I called it a kunsthalle with a gallery, because the capitalist-for-sale-commercial side was important for me. I don’t think a paradigm shift is helpful, most importantly for the artist. Artists need money. Artists need studios, and while there are shows that aren’t necessarily for sale, I wasn’t interested in being that kind of space. I was really interested in finding a way to maybe not subvert the white cube as a commercial entity, but instead shift the ideas around the kind of shows we could put on those spaces.

Samaira Wilson (@samairrrrrra) sits down with Ebony L. Haynes (@ebotron) to discuss the impossibility of work-life balance, how she crafts love letters to the artists she works with through her curatorial practice, and the advice she offers aspiring curators. by @ebotron

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4 months ago

HBD FYS! 💫 💛 You always suggest Thai food because you know that’s all I really want, you basically packed up our whole house by yourself because I’m incapable of a healthy work-life balance, and I don’t think I’ve washed a dish since 2015. We’ve been cleaning up shitty floods since that night I called you from Shoot The Lobster in 2017 and you came loaded with supplies (including masks) to our most recent flood 2 days ago 🫠
I couldn’t do it with anyone else.
Anita for you 4ever. CB Crew 4lyfe 🫶🏾🖖🏾🤌🏾 by @ebotron

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5 months ago

🔊🔊🔊🔊

EBO Lions for the 61st Venice Biennale 🐈‍⬛
aka Koyo’s Biennale 🖤

very honorable mention:
Denmark 🏊‍♂️
Cyprus 🚢
Canada 🪷 by @ebotron

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5 months ago

💯 @cultured_mag
🐎🐎🐎 by @ebotron

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6 months ago

Opening TONIGHT!! Isa Genzken, VACATION 🛫
Curated by ELH for DZ. Isa 4 Ever 🩶🚬🚬

Reception 6-8pm at David Zwirner Tribeca 🗿
Huge shout out to @veroniqueansorge 🫶🏾 by @ebotron

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7 months ago