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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In many respects, The Cremaster Cycle is an art critic's answered prayer. Matthew Barney's five-part meditation on the origins of form, using the muscle that regulates the height of testicles in the ...