[EDITOR’S NOTE: Called “ultimately the most important American artist of his generation,” Matthew Barney is the creator of The Cremaster Cycle–a five-part cinematic epic that doubles as an art ...

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 ...

Cremaster 3 is the final installment of Matthew Barney’s five-part Cremaster cycle. If that reads like a typo, be informed that, over the last decade, Barney has been filming and releasing the ...

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 ...

Thematically, the films tackle both the general process of artistic creation and the symbolically related descent of the human testicles (as controlled by the cremaster muscle). Do yourself a favor ...

This weekend the Byrd Theatre will show Matthew Barney s Cremaster Cycle, a series of five films that have had the art world s knickers in a collective knot since their release in the '90s. I was ...

From the time he first came at us 12 years ago, Matthew Barney has been the great hope of an art world always looking for hope. By now, at 36, it’s routine for him to be called the best artist of his ...

July 11-24 at the Varsity. See movie times, page 77. Matthew Barney grew up in Boise, Idaho, where he was the star quarterback on the high-school football team. But at six feet tall, he was too short ...

In which Stranger Visual Art editor Jen Graves and I live-slog all six and half hours of today’s marathon screening of Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle at SIFF Cinema.