“River of Fundament,” a new film by visionary artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney, will have its world premiere this week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The sprawling, six-hour film is an ambitious ...

In 2007, Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler began a new collaborative project inspired by American author Norman Mailer's 1983 novel Ancient Evenings, set in pharaonic Egypt. The project was conceived ...

The media archives on Barney, one of the world’s most influential artists, make for intimidating reading. He speaks only to journalists who know his work intimately, and he doesn’t suffer fools. One ...

Nearly 7 years in the making, Matthew Barney: RIVER OF FUNDAMENT is Barney's largest filmic undertaking since his renowned five-part epic The CREMASTER Cycle (1994 to 2002). The film has been ...

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 ...

It is impossible to know what was in the minds of these earliest humanoid ancestors, who may not even have had the power of speech, and certainly would not have been capable of articulating thoughts ...

Idiosyncratic performance artist Matthew Barney's surreal, six-hour interpretation of Norman Mailer's 1983 novel "Ancient Evenings" depicting the artist's tour de force vision of the Egyptian ...

Misunderstood for decades, the sculptor and filmmaker is pushing ceramic to its limits. He’s dancing. He’s making the best work of his career. By Jason Farago Five trends the artist has spawned, from ...