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, ...

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, 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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

Owing more to art installations than art-house cinema, Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle is a series of surreal forays into the realms of myth, sex and contemporary culture. It also requires an ...

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 ...

Owing more to art installations than art-house cinema, Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle is a series of surreal forays into the realms of myth, sex and contemporary culture. It also requires an ...