TV Broadcast (France & Germany): Wednesday, 28 December at 0.45 am Online from 26 December to 27 March 2017 Jim Rose (of Jim Rose Circus Sideshow) meets his favorite artist, Joe Coleman, in his hometown of Nantes. Both are circus enthusiasts. Rose is renowned for reviving the freak show in the ’90s. Since childhood, Coleman […]
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Joe Coleman’s most recent painting, “The Three Graces” will be unveiled at this exhibition Larry Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch present “Desire,” curated by Diana Widmaier-Picasso, at the Moore Building, Miami Design District, Miami, Florida. On view November 30 through December 4, 2016. On the occasion of Art Basel Miami Beach, Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian
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The Coleman family mourns the death of our dear friend John Zacherle
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The Coleman family mourns the death of our dear friend Herschel Gordon Lewis
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Joe Coleman plays the title character in this burlesque horror thriller. You can rent the film here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/crueltale
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Joe and his work are included in this examination of outlaw art. Alan Kaufman is a critically acclaimed novelist, memoirist, poet and author of the groundbreaking “Outlaw” anthologies. The fourth and latest in the series is The Outlaw Bible of American Art. Documenting movements from the Post-war to the present, it is a revolutionary art
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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. Three very unique characters trace a line through this history of precarious transgression in the fringes of popular culture:
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The Coleman family mourns the death of their dear friend Paul Laffoley. http://paullaffoley.net/
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As part of the New York Outsider Art Fair, Coleman participates in a panel discusion January 19, 2016 at NeueHouse. LINK “Time moves differently in the world of outsider art. We often expect mainstream artists we respect to evolve and progress over time. In the outsider art realm, however, many artists expand upon a single
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In an unprecedented moment, Joe’s latest painting will be unveiled in an exhibition curated by Jeffrey Deitch called “Unrealism” in Miami. The life-size painting of Coleman’s wife Whitney Ward took four years to complete and has never before been shown. It will be displayed alongside Coleman’s own life-size self-portrait, which was completed in 2010. The
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