THERE WAS A TIME, roughly a decade ago, when the relative merits of a certain five-part film series were among the more hotly debated subjects in the extended artsy-fartsy community. Depending on whom ...

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 ...

Weird, freaky and quite possibly sublime, Matthew Barney’s five-film “Cremaster” cycle makes a rare appearance at the Music Box Theatre this weekend. Non-narrative and avant-garde all the way, the ...

Is Matthew Barney a genius? Or simply the ringmaster for a newish artistic genus? Judging from the brouhaha surrounding his Cremaster cycle of films -- equally loved and maligned -- the case could be ...

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, ...

I’ll admit that I was afraid, very afraid, of sitting through The Cremaster Cycle. The fear was simple enough: Would this series of five surreal, sexual but antierotic, promiscuously symbol-strewn, ...

[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 ...

Owing more to art installations than art-house cinema, Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle is a series of surreal forays into the realms of myth, sex and contemporary culture. It also requires an ...

This week the Music Box presents all five installments of Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster” cycle of avant-garde features, plus the Chicago premiere of his latest, De Lama Lamina. Tickets are $10, and a ...

Owing more to art installations than art-house cinema, Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle is a series of surreal forays into the realms of myth, sex and contemporary culture. It also requires an ...