Online and Podcasts

Selected Press Books Magazines and Newspapers Online and Podcasts Video
2025
ArtNet

A double review by Sarah Cascone of both the “Carnival” exhibition at Deitch curated by Joe and the documentary film “How Dark My Love” that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

2025
Reel News Daily

by Liz Whittemore

“In HOW DARK MY LOVE, Scott Gracheff offers Tribeca 2025 audiences a one-of-a-kind love story between an artist and his photographer/dominatrix wife. Joe Coleman and Whitney Ward are a match made in some weirdly curated heaven of their making….”

“HOW DARK MY LOVE honors the catharsis in art. Joe discusses the struggle in humanity, and it perfectly captures the essence of the film, their lives, and the work. The culmination of a life and love most dream of, HOW DARK MY LOVE celebrates the good, the bad, and the ugly and makes it a masterpiece.”

2025
Anti-Monitor

by Jarrod Jones

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, photographer, muse, and wife. His film grants us, with remarkable generosity, a guest pass into Coleman’s Odditorium, a singular space of sinister artifacts, horror-fetish bric-a-brac, infant cadavers in jars, and at its flaming center, the most recent example of Coleman’s devotion: “Doorway to Whitney.”….

“Coleman’s larger pursuit as an artist — and maybe this is the reason his work holds such perverse magnetism — is that he seeks out the soul in the detritus, stitching together a riotous patchwork of anecdotes, obscenities, and visual static to reveal some untold humanity on the canvas. His subjects stand there, Clowesian Eightball figures simmering with lysergic fury, as the artist attempts to summarize the unquantifiable, to make sense of the monsters and maestros who make the largest waves in this chaotic sea of ours.”

2023
The Death of Art

“We haven’t seen things like this since the triptychs of The Renaissance.”
Click the link to check out our current episode on the latest piece by @joecolemanartist #thedeathofart #newyork #nyc #joecoleman #nyart

2020
Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art

Article by Anthony Haden-Guest

2020
The Lydian Spin

Performer and artist Lydia Lunch interviews Joe for her podcast, The Lydian Spin

2019
Hyperallergic

Article by Anthony Haden-Guest on the subject of Joe’s exhibition at Andrew Edlin Gallery, 2019.

2019
Time Out New York
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