Wild animals and menacing women with guns stalk Barney’s grizzled ranger in the artists’ feature-length work that retells Ovid’s mythological tale of Diana and Actaeon Matthew Barney’s Redoubt at the ...
We might as well call it “Dances With Wolves”: Compared to the nightmarish vision multimedia id-tickler Matthew Barney created his epic, five-film “Cremaster Cycle” (which suggested Hieronymus Bosch ...
Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. If you think you know what a film screening is supposed to feel like, Matthew Barney’s Redoubt ...
“The symbolic status of the wolf, or shall we say "wolf mythology," is so strong that biological facts about the animal are often irrelevant . . . the battle of wills that happened over restoration of ...
Here’s the poet Don Paterson talking about Rilke’s Orpheus sequence of Sonnets (1922): “For all their occasional obscurity [they] also make a great deal of plain sense.” Paterson goes on to say “this ...
For his newest film, Matthew Barney didn’t cast names as big as Maggie Gyllenhaal or Paul Giamatti, who both starred in his previous film River of Fundament, but he did opt for an attention-grabbing ...
Billed by the Hayward Gallery as “one of the most ambitious and provocative artists of our time”, Matthew Barney, the former Mr Björk, has become a huge name on the international art scene without ...
Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Tinworks Art marked a major milestone this fall with the debut of Tinworks at Rialto. The arts ...
There’s a tree in the middle of the third-floor exhibition space at the Yale University Art Gallery. A couple trees, in fact. Copper plates hang on the wall, in various stages of chemical obfuscation ...
Matthew Barney takes aim at the great American pastime of hunting in his most straightforward feature yet, contrasting art with artillery. We might as well call it “Dances With Wolves”: Compared with ...