Unusual Spaces Jul 13, 2008
" Portrait of a young artist Criscitello studied art at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, which houses a collection of modern and contemporary art rivaling that of the Everson in Syracuse. He recalls his early artistic practice as heavily influenced by developments taking place in the early nineties, which he articulates as 'a shift from the glamour of the eighties to an emphasis on the body, personal politics, political correctness, and identity.' He cites Matthew Barney as... (Ithaca Times, NY)
Girlz on the hood Jun 24, 2008
In the end, Prince's problem is that he's just not as good as Bruce Nauman or Matthew Barney, or Sherman at her best. His art knows this and tries to deal with it by way of jokes and excess. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Disturbing videos tinged with humor Mar 3, 2008
More recently their goal has been to bring some of that electricity the energy of live, intimate and improvised performance into video art, offering an alternative to the slick production values of, say, a Matthew Barney. They began working together after moving to Los Angeles, by way of New York, in 2001. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Provocative Guggenheim director resigns Feb 28, 2008
He has also organized trend-setting shows of contemporary artists, among them Matthew Barney, Richard Prince and, most recently, Cai Guo-Qiang. Krens has drawn criticism for some of his programming choices, including a show devoted to Armani suits underwritten by the fashion house itself. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The MuseumsQuartier Vienna in 2008 Dec 28, 2007
To name just as few: "Matthew Barney. Drawing Restraint" starts in March,"Punk - No one is innocent" is slated for May and October gives insights into the work of David Hockney with "Lovers, Friends, Still Lives, Landscapes and Some Dogs". Architecture fans have a lot to look forward to as well: as of February, the Architecture Center Vienna will present "The White City of Tel Aviv - Tel-Aviv's Modern Movement", in June the "Linz Texas" exhibit will open ahead of the celebration of European... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Celeb Auction to Support HIV Programs Dec 6, 2007
Among the contributing artists: Hirst, Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns, Matthew Barney, Georg Baselitz, Cecily Brown and Douglas Gordon. The sale's proceeds - estimated at more than $40 million - will go to the United Nations Foundation to support HIV/AIDS relief programs in Africa conducted by The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, Sotheby's said Wednesday. (ABC 7 News, DC)
Russian collectors snap up art at London Frieze Fair Oct 11, 2007
In just half an hour, he had already bought a 55,000 pound ($112,312) Matthew Barney triptych ... "Matthew Barney is one of the strongest artists in the world and I am glad to begin with his work.". (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Festival books Bjork for a night at the Opera House Sep 27, 2007
It was not known if Bjork's partner, the acclaimed American artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney, will accompany her to Australia. Richard Jinman. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The ice maiden cometh: Bjork heads for Sydney Sep 26, 2007
It was not known if Bjork's partner, the acclaimed American artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney will accompany her to Australia. send photos, videos ffs to 0424 SMS SMH (+61 424 767 764), or us. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Barney's rubble Sep 20, 2007
Does Matthew Barney's eagerly awaited Serpentine show live up to expectations ... Matthew Barney has been called the American Damien Hirst ... Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint is at the Serpentine, London until November 11. (Guardian Unlimited)
SFMOMA's Neal Benezra balances art and money Sep 7, 2007
Major exhibitions: "Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting" (2002), "Marc Chagall" (2003), "Diane Arbus Revelations" (2003), "Philip Guston Retrospective" (2003), "Chuck Close: Self-Portraits" (2005), "The Art of Richard Tuttle" (2005), "Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective" (2005), "Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth" (2006), "Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint" (2006), "Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Painting and Drawing" (2007). Attendance: Fiscal year 2006-07: 618,000. (San Francisco Chronicle)
You're having a laugh - if only I was too Jul 15, 2007
Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler created a post-interval performance of such glorious self-importance and inanity that I hesitate even to describe it. It was a tableau. (The Observer)
Meet the art world's latest sensation Jun 18, 2007
(In this regard, the American artist Matthew Barney, who is showing this summer at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection on Venice's Grand Canal, may be his only living contender. . (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Biennale reflected on empires old and new Jun 18, 2007
All-purpose art star Matthew Barney had better watch out for this guy. We all should. (Toronto Star)
Venice Biennale Jun 15, 2007
A young, Yale-trained artist named Hyungkoo Lee has fabricated the presumptive fossil remains of Bugs Bunny, Tom, Jerry and others, somberly presenting them in glass vitrines as if at a natural history museum; there's also something to do with devices to enhance his own physique and a surgical theater full of obscure instrumentation, conjuring up Matthew Barney. A pair of 8-year-olds accompanying me found this all quite fascinating, as they did David Altmejd's contribution on behalf of Canada,... (International Herald Tribune)
Breaking into song, bursting with ideas Jun 5, 2007
Most recently that show-stopping staple of the movie musical has been reinvigorated by Matthew Barney - who elaborately quoted Busby Berkeley in his "Cremaster" film cycle of the 1990s - and Baz Luhrmann, who so delightfully mashed up fin-de-siecle Paris, historic Bollywood and pop icons from Bowie to Nirvana in his "Moulin Rouge!" And just this year, the Oscar for Live Action Short Film went to "West Bank Story," which featured singing-and-dancing rumbles between two falafel stands, one Israeli... (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Karen Kilimnik: Finding meaning in scatteredness Jun 1, 2007
lix Gonzlez-Torres, Jack Pierson and even Matthew Barney. Today in Culture. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Matthew Barney: No Restraint May 13, 2007
American visual artist Matthew Barney has baffled and beguiled many with his work. A scene from Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9 ... American visual artist Matthew Barney has baffled and beguiled many with his work. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Timbaland adds heat May 8, 2007
It's bound together by the brass instruments she deployed in her 2005 score for "Drawing Restraint 9," a film by her husband, the multimedia artist Matthew Barney. And some of the lyrics obliquely address topics like politics, feminism and religion. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
A DEVIANT DISCOGRAPHY May 6, 2007
In love with multimedia artist Matthew Barney, Bjrk writes an intimate take on cocooning. The beats are still there, but the duo Matmos has transformed them into skittering, laptop-generated rhythms. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
- Jonathan Jones May 1, 2007
Meanwhile, precisely because he never did court celebrity, the young US sculptor and filmmaker Matthew Barney has emerged as an authentic star. This spring Barney and Marden have major exhibitions in Europe. (Guardian Unlimited)
He Shall Perform Mar 25, 2007
MATTHEW BARNEY CHANNELS MACARTHUR IN NEW FOLIO ... March 25, 2007 -- WHEN Matthew Barney's "Drawing Restraint 9" debuted in New York last March, it set a box-office record for a single-screen opening at the IFC Center. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Dallas museum features contemporary works from three major donors Feb 10, 2007
The second part features artists including Jasper Johns and Matthew Barney. It opens tomorrow and will remain on display through May 20th. (KSLA.com, LA)
Matthew Barney pushes limits of media Feb 1, 2007
ALESSIA PIERDOMENICO/REUTERS Icelandic singer and actress Bjork and U.S. director Matthew Barney pose during a photocall at the Venice Lido Sept. 2, 2005 ... Drawing Restraint 9, by Matthew Barney, Soundtrack by Bjrk ... Following the Toronto International Film Festival screening of Drawing Restrain 9, Matthew Barney's answer to the Double Fantasy album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, a reporter from the IndieWIRE service caught up with the New York-based artist to rave about this "abstract and... (Toronto Star)
Artist in search of a host body Jan 31, 2007
Matthew Barney talks about how his site-specific works, such as his recent Drawing Restraint 9 with Bjork, are influenced by their environment ... While The New York Times once referred to Matthew Barney and partner Bjork as "the Bjork-Barney enigma machine," the surest sign that the artist must be hitting a nerve came in a Village Voice film review last year that labelled Barney's cinematic collaboration with Bjork, Drawing Restraint 9, as "[his] latest big-budget ejaculation.". (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Portrait of wild artist is a model of restraint Jan 31, 2007
Sometime after the 2002 completion of his five-part "Cremaster " series -- the "Finnegans Wake" of avant-garde art movies -- the sculptor and filmmaker Matthew Barney and his wife and collaborator , Bj rk set out for Japan to create "Drawing Restraint 9," an amazing, slow-moving, mystifyingly surreal epic set mainly onboard a modern Japanese whaling ship ... Her film, "Matthew Barney: No Restraint," is as blandly lucid as Barney's is wildly and perplexingly imaginative ... Think of it as... (Boston Globe)
Last-minute Holiday Gifts for the Dictators in Your Life! Dec 23, 2006
Perfect for: people with bad hair; fans of Matthew Barney s Cremaster Cycle. The task set before the cinema today is one of contributing to people s development into true Communists, explains Kim in his riveting, 344-page masterwork from 1973. (Harper's Magazine)
RESTRAINING FOR ANSWERS Dec 22, 2006
December 22, 2006 -- ARTIST Matthew Barney's oddball "Drawing Restraint 9," featuring his songbird wife, Bjork, was magical, full of celestial music and scrumptious visuals ... A new sequel of sorts, "Matthew Barney: No Restraint," is a documentary about the making of the earlier film ... MATTHEW BARNEY: NO RESTRAINTRunning time: 72 minutes. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Slides and sunbathing Nov 2, 2006
Maurizio Cattelan, Anselm Kiefer, Marlene Dumas, Takashi Murakami, Jeff Koons and Matthew Barney have similar followings. The modern art masters of the first half of the 20th century never had it so good. (International Herald Tribune)
Putting decay on display Jul 25, 2006
His thinking and development have been shaped by artists who share his fascination with the dismembered body, such as Kiki Smith (who taught him at Columbia University, where he received his master of fine arts in 2001), Robert Gober and Matthew Barney. David Cronenberg, who shares his fascination with death, violence and decay, is another hero. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Art shows make you feel, think and smell Jul 17, 2006
Drawing Restraint: Matthew Barney, through Sept. 17 ... For Matthew Barney, whose sprawling show is taking center stage this summer at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art, the experience was more intellectual. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Loveless Art Jun 24, 2006
Matthew Barney, in glory all his own ... Matthew Barney, in glory all his own ... Everyone should see "Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint" after it opens at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, but no one should anticipate enjoying it. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Matthew Barney, in glory all his own Jun 24, 2006
The work of Matthew Barney defines loveless art ... Everyone should see "Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint" after it opens at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, but no one should anticipate enjoying it ... Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint: Sculpture, drawings, photographs and video. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Slippery sculpture oozes into SFMOMA Jun 24, 2006
His rig was laden with 1,600 gallons of liquid petroleum jelly for a 10-ton sculpture by artist Matthew Barney, who has made the greasy goop a prime ingredient in the shaping of his strange and alluring visual world ... He said he was just there "to do the pumpin','' but he was pleased to be part of "Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint,'' opening today at SFMOMA.. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Fur suits, body carving -- this must be love, Barney-style May 26, 2006
For their first film together, the artist Matthew Barney and his life partner, the musician Bj rk, have settled on a simple tale of boy meets girl ... Drawing Restraint 9" has a single (albeit cavernous) set and is, by comparison, intimate to the point of being claustrophobic.This is still as good a location as any for Barney to explore, however obliquely, his ideas of creation, destruction, and renewal, though the most notorious bodily affronts of his previous cinematic adventures are... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Lots of Shakespeare shaking, and a double dose of our Neva May 22, 2006
column on Page 18, Neva recently had a face-to-face talk with San Francisco-born art star Matthew Barney (Page 24), whose film "Drawing Restraint 9" precedes a major multimedia installation that opens next month at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the only U.S. venue for the exhibition. Instead of the standard star-centric stories about the movie biz -- readers can get those in Entertainment Weekly and the Hollywood magazines -- we try to bring Pink readers enlightening stories about the... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Björk to the Future May 17, 2006
Matthew Barney's girlfriend inspires his most coherent film ... There's a fine line between artistic genius and pretentious wankery, and most cineastes will tell you that the films of Matthew Barney exist right around that line. (City Pages)
Cannes: a user's guide May 15, 2006
Try these crossovers: the British artist Douglas Gordon co-directs a portrait of Zinedine Zidane, Zidane: un portrait, while assorted provocateurs from both film and gallery worlds get together for the (reputedly very mixed) hard-core sex anthology Destricted: directors include Sam Taylor-Wood (inset), Matthew Barney, Larry Clark, Marina Abramovic and Gaspar No. And if that seems too tame, then you'll probably want to try Taxidermia - an allegedly jaw-dropping Hungarian film about murder,... (Independent)
Indie Summer May 7, 2006
"Drawing Restraint 9" (Bridge): Another oddity from San Francisco-born artist Matthew Barney ("Cremaster"), this one starring his partner Bjork. "The Lost City" (Embarcadero): Actor Andy Garcia's directorial debut -- a labor of love about Cuba in the 1950s, before the fun stopped. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
ARMOND WHITE May 4, 2006
The Promise has imagery such as John Boorman took from legend for Excalibur, or as Matthew Barney sought in the Asian-accented Drawing Restraint 9atavistic, precognitive, of ancient ritual still connected to its moment of inspiration. (The Duke traps the Princess in a vaulting bird cage. (New York Press)
The new cheap medium Apr 29, 2006
A single edition of a video has only begun to creep close to seven-figure prices, mainly through high-profile stars, such as American artist Matthew Barney of Cremaster fame. The Steichen sale a "watershed moment" in photography history, according to one insider topped the previous record high for a single photo image, $1. (Toronto Star)
Adrienne Miller: The Coast of Akron Feb 16, 2006
While she lies in bed bemoaning her fate, he, like Matthew Barney today, has become a rich and famous artist by spinning forth an inscrutable mythology. While Barney's Cremaster Cycle of films used surrealism to smuggle gibberish into the Guggenheim, Lowell relies upon a kind of ventriloquism to keep his fans hungering for more. (New Zealand Herald)
Snow Cake opens Berlin festival Feb 10, 2006
Other jury members include India's Yash Chopra, South Korean actress Lee Young Ae and US artist Matthew Barney, the husband of singer Bjork. Last year's winner was the South African film Carmen in Khayelitsha, directed by Mark Dornford-May. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Berlin festival judges revealed Jan 19, 2006
India's Yash Chopra, Janusz Kaminski, and US artist Matthew Barney - the husband of Icelandic singer Bjork - are among the eight-strong jury. In December it was revealed that British actress Charlotte Rampling will chair the panel. (BBC News -- Europe)
Yash Chopra in jury for 56th Berlin Film Festival Jan 19, 2006
The 56th Berlinale, which had already named British actress Charlotte Rampling as jury chairwoman, said that India's Yash Chopra, frequent Steven Spielberg collaborator Janusz Kaminski and US multimedia artist and Bjork spouse Matthew Barney would hand out the coveted Gold and Silver Bear prizes. South Korean actress Lee Young Ae ("Sympathy for Lady Vengeance"), Dutch director Marleen Gorris ("Antonia's Line"), German actor Armin Mueller-Stahl ("Shine") and Hollywood producer Fred Roos, who... (Hindu)
