Joe Coleman's 'Carnival' Comes Alive at Jeffrey Deitch

In an art world too often steered by polish and market predictability, the carnivalesque is the rupture we didn't know we needed. Rejecting neutrality for spectacle and reveling in contradiction and catharsis, this is the spirit that animates Carnival, a new group show on view at Jeffrey Deitch, curated by performer and painter Joe Coleman.Drawing on his earliest memories of New York - when freak shows, flea circuses and Ripley's ruled over Times Square - Coleman's latest reconnects us with a lo...