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

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’s epic, nonlinear “Cremaster Cycle” exploring gender identity opens a two-week run today at the Nuart, 11272 Santa Monica Blvd., West Los Angeles. “Cremaster 3” screens today through ...

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 ...

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, ...