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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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

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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...