As New York baked in sunshine, two journalists were in the bowels of the Guggenheim for nine hours, watching a bizarre, nearly dialogue-free art film As part of Storylines, an ongoing exhibition of ...

All five parts of visual artist Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster” film cycle will appear at SIFF Cinema this week, in a rare opportunity to see this work (which is not available on DVD) in its entirety.

CREMASTER CYCLE Just in case TBA didn't fill your artsy-fartsy quota. Cremaster 1 (1996)—Okay, so yes, it’s basically just this big bunch of ladies in frilly shit dancing around or whatever, but as ...

Matthew Barney gets lots of art-blog play for his screen-star good looks, his marriage to Bjork and many critics' proclamations that he's the most important artist of his generation. His major ...

Matthew Barney, CREMASTER 1, 1995, production still © Matthew Barney. Photo: Michael James O’Brien. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery The Cremaster ...

I’ll admit that I was afraid, very afraid, of sitting through The Cremaster Cycle. The fear was simple enough: Would this series of five surreal, sexual but antierotic, promiscuously symbol-strewn, ...

Marti Domination (that's what she calls herself) as a stowaway in Matthew Barney "Cremaster 1." There are at least two reasons to visit the IFC Center for artist Matthew Barney’s five-part “Cremas ter ...

July 11-24 at the Varsity. See movie times, page 77. Matthew Barney grew up in Boise, Idaho, where he was the star quarterback on the high-school football team. But at six feet tall, he was too short ...

Matthew Barney delivers his masterpiece in "Cremaster 3," unquestionably the 35-year-old sculptor-performance artist-filmmaker's most linear, most narratively inclined work to date. Matthew Barney ...

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Called “ultimately the most important American artist of his generation,” Matthew Barney is the creator of The Cremaster Cycle–a five-part cinematic epic that doubles as an art ...