On the top floor of the Yale University Art Gallery, up one flight of stairs from the museum’s sterling collection of Modern and contemporary art, an ambitious but jarring monumental sculpture by ...

During the special screening of the artist's flick, "River of Fundament," he also shared the type of medium he'd want to work with next: "Radiation." By Kate Sutton Matthew Brown - H 2014 River of ...

Matthew Barney frightens me. As a devotee of horror movies, I should be compelled by Barney's grotesqueries and monstrosities, but even the promise of legless models, eunuch satyrs, cyborgs, and ...

Matthew Barney has been called the American Damien Hirst. You may be surprised at the level of fame this implies because you have probably barely heard of him. Whatever media excitement has been ...

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

A lot of people recently suffered for Matthew Barney’s art. Alas, I was not one of them, although I was supposed to be. A year ago October 1, my flight was canceled, so I missed KHU, a sprawling, ...

“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 ...