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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

THESE days, the closest we get to an American art star with reach beyond the art world is Matthew Barney, whose exhibition at the fiscally pinched Guggenheim, delayed a year, opens today. It is far ...

The Cremaster Cycle by Matthew Barney is the first truly great piece of cinema to be made in a fine art context since Dali and Bunuel filmed Un Chien Andalou in 1929. It is one of the most imaginative ...

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

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 ...

MATTHEW BARNEY'S WORK WASN'T MEANT TO BE ENTERTAINING, WRITES JOHN McDONALD. Who was it that said Wagner has great moments but agonising quarter-hours? The same applies to Matthew Barney's five-part, ...