Matthew Barney delivers his masterpiece in "Cremaster 3," unquestionably the 35-year-old sculptor-performance artist-filmmaker's most linear, most narratively inclined work to date. Matthew Barney ...

Writer/director Matthew Barney’s visually lush and nearly dialogue-free quintet of puzzling art films is more like an art installation than traditional cinema. The five episodes weave dense, ...

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 ...

Cremaster 3 is a tall, towering art film with a capital “A.” It also happens to be quite entertaining at times, somewhat tedious at others, and even funny during its few moments of slapstick. It mixes ...

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 ...

All five parts of visual artist Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster” film cycle will appear at SIFF Cinema this week, in a rare opportunity to see this work (which is not available on DVD) in its entirety.

Watching the mysterious, beautiful “Cremaster 3,” the final installment of Matthew Barney’s five-part cycle, leaves one dazzled and drained. This spectacular piece of conceptual art is too strange to ...

104.8 x 85.1 cm. (41.3 x 33.5 in.) Matthew Barney, Cremaster 3, New York: The Guggenheim Museum 2002, unpaginated, illustrated (other examples of the center and right images illustrated) Nancy Spector ...

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