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

Named for the muscle that turns your nutsack into a walnut when it gets cold, The Cremaster Cycle swings the biggest dick in contemporary art. Produced from 1994 through 2002, and last screened in ...

Watch out everyone - it's coming! Take cover all those who think that movies are shrink-wrapped 90-minute modules, things you can see after dinner at a restaurant and still be home on time to pay off ...

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 ...

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, ...

THERE WAS A TIME, roughly a decade ago, when the relative merits of a certain five-part film series were among the more hotly debated subjects in the extended artsy-fartsy community. Depending on whom ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. PORTLAND — Performance artist Matthew Barney’s epic five-part film, “The ...

This week the Music Box presents all five installments of Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster” cycle of avant-garde features, plus the Chicago premiere of his latest, De Lama Lamina. Tickets are $10, and a ...

Writer/director Matthew Barney’s visually lush and nearly dialogue-free quintet of puzzling art films is more like an art installation than traditional cinema. The five episodes weave dense, ...

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 ...