Matthew Barney

[American, born in 1967]

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Original works by Matthew Barney available for purchase at art galleries worldwide

Home Page:

Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle

Museums and Public Art Galleries:

Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
Cremaster 3: The Dance of Hiram Abiff

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Cremaster 2: Deseret, 1999

Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
The Cabinet of Baby Fay La Foe, 2000

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Norway

Goetz Collection, Munich
Information about a 1996 exhibition

Goetz Collection, Munich

Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin NEW!
2 photographs from Cremaster online

S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent, Belgium

Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Info about a 2007 exhibition: "Drawing Restraint"

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

Pictures from Image Archives:

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)

Web Sites About the Artist:

Cremaster Fanatic, The Matthew Barney Fan Site
See especially the "news" section, which is actually a busy blog about Matthew Barney

Other Web Sites:

ArtAngel Artist Projects
Crewmaster 4

PBS
art:21 - Art in the 21st Century

Style.com - The Online Home of Vogue and W Magazine
Slideshow of 27 artworks and photographs based on a sea voyage taken by Matthew Barney

The Sender Collection, New York
A private lending collection of Minimal and Conceptual Art
(Get past the splash page, then click "Artists")

Articles:

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Art + Auction Magazine
Production still from Cremaster I (Click "next" to see another photograph)

ARTnews
"Baffled, Bewildered - and Smitten (How to learn to stop worrying and love the art you don't understand)"

Frieze Magazine
"Of Goats and Men"

Frieze Magazine
"The Passenger"

Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 102): Matthew Barney

Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 49): Matthew Barney

Museo Magazine
Coming Soon to the Guggenheim... A Visit to the Set of Matthew Barney's Cremaster 3

Tate Magazine
Artist Project: Matthew Barney on the Cremaster Cycle

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Matthew Barney's Buttocks In Dismal New MoMA Show

Multimedia:

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Interactive Flash feature: Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint

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Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle

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Drawing Restraint 7

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