Joe Coleman Curates a Wildly Imaginative Ode to the Outsider The spectacle has returned to the gallery. With Carnival, now on view at Jeffrey Deitch’s New York location through June 28, the freaks, the flamboyant, and the fabulously grotesq…
“How Dark My Love, Scott Gracheff’s tender and absorbing documentary, doesn’t so much profile Coleman as it basks in his brilliance, capturing his compulsions, his craft, and, crucially, his ecstatic devotion to Whitney Ward: dominatrix, ph…
Carnival, the group show curated by the esteemed artist Joe Coleman at Soho’s Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, had an opening day that lived up to its name. Hundreds of friends and fans packed the huge space for an exhibit that is a perfect match of…
May 3–June 28, 2025 18 Wooster Street, New York Artists have long been inspired by the themes of the carnival and the circus. They often identify with the craft, the courage, and the sometimes marginal existence of circus and carnival perfo…
Hosted by Alex Grey & Allyson Grey featuring an Artist Panel with Joe Coleman, Sebastian Wahl & Jacaeber Kastor Within a person’s core identity is a sacred place, an authentic self, where we can reconnect with our true nature. It’s a place
In Conversation and Book Signing: Date: Friday, August 9th, 2024, Time: 6 PM Location: Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth, 917 E. 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013 Tel: (213) 988 7413 Eventbrite tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-doorway-to-joe-…
It’s official! It’s long overdue! The 2024 King Neptune and Queen Mermaid of the Coney Island Mermaid Parade will be (drumroll, please)…their royal highnesses Joe Coleman and Whitney Ward! See you on the boardwalk on Saturday, June 22. Y’al…
On March 30th, 2024 Joe discussed “True Crime, Wax Museums, and Vice in Coney Island” with filmmaker Heather Buckley at the Coney Island Sideshow. This was followed by a Burlesque show curated by Joe featuring acts by Jo “Boobs” Weldon, Jon…
Clemens Marschall’s book Avant-garde from Below: Transgressive Performance from Iggy Pop to Joe Coleman and GG Allin is an account, through the 20th century and beyond, of a dangerous bastardisation of punk spirit and avant-garde theory. Th…
A Doorway to Joe collects over 150 oil paintings and comprehensively illustrated sections and essays about Coleman’s fine art, “lowbrow” art, music career (as front man of the ’70s punk band, the Steel Tips), performance art, and the artist…
In this unique live conversation moderated by film writer and producer Heather Buckley, Joe Coleman will investigate a series of films and the ways that concepts of high and low art intersect in and around them. The first will be Gerald Kar…
November 4, 2021 to December 18, 2021 David Zwirner is pleased to present Seen in the Mirror: Things from the Cartin Collection, on view at the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street location. Since he began collecting in the 1980s, Mickey Cartin h…