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 ...

Cinema 21 is going to show the entirety of Matthew Barney's "The Cremaster Cycle," from Sept. 24-30. The series of five films were made from 1995-2002 by the acclaimed Barney and last showed in ...

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 “Cremaster 3” — which is actually the fifth and final installment in his quintet of highly personal, avant-garde fables — opens and closes with scenes set at Fingal’s Cave in Scotland ...

For a sequence of The Cremaster Cycle, a series of five films created over the past decade, Matthew Barney transformed the Guggenheim Museum into an amphitheater in which a figure in a wildly orange ...

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.

Is Matthew Barney a genius? Or simply the ringmaster for a newish artistic genus? Judging from the brouhaha surrounding his Cremaster cycle of films -- equally loved and maligned -- the case could be ...

[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 ...

Arthouse Films, a new division created by Palm Pictures, will release artist/director Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster 3” this spring, the New York-based company announced Friday. Palm acquired the North ...

Cremaster 3 is a tall, towering art film with a capital “A.” It also happens to be quite entertaining at times, somewhat tedious at others, and even funny during its few moments of slapstick. It mixes ...

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 ...