good2btheking (July 12, 2008 at 4:30 am)

Is there more to this than just art? i read somewhere that the videos for the movies were sold to collectors in glass boxes for 300 thousand dollars!! With the freemasonary undertones i am lead to believe that a message lies somehwere in this whole mess. How else can you explain the funding for a expression like this. I find his work appealing and disturbing at the same time much like life itself.

dinnerbucket9 (June 14, 2008 at 2:13 am)

Your english is far better than that of our president [ forgive me]. Anyway, what I see in Barney is an astonishing imagination, whatever the form he chooses. The strangeness is thrilling, however obsure some of his central preoccupations [ which seem connected to, you know, the generative; to the testes, sperm, forms in transition].

essexboi81 (May 27, 2008 at 7:37 pm)

wots a gaybo?

stgoramirez (May 26, 2008 at 6:19 pm)

I think that he lost during every cremaster's film the real power of cinema, wich, for me, it is to make people imagine new realities or worlds. He shows really great images from it's own imagination, but i really felt like i wasn't part of it... He creates a new world inside his imagination but don't let us get in too. For me, his work is amazing, really, but i think art shouldn't be just amazing, should be something else. Sorry about my english... it's not very good.

kirkstein (May 15, 2008 at 2:21 am)

Yeah, that petroleum jelly just screams Joseph Beuys... rip-off.

botch8949 (May 13, 2008 at 7:09 am)

is their any way i can watch the cycle? im sure its leaked somewhere

BenCtree (April 17, 2008 at 6:11 am)

Osvaldoe. Why should we listen to you? What makes you think you have the authority to define art for everybody else? It sounds like you are bitter about the success of something that you can't understand and so you desperately try to convince people that their own reactions are wrong. Ridiculous! That is the definition of pretension, not to mention ignorance. So before you put these labels on people with actual ideas and a capacity for creating art, how about a reality check.

steamroomstud (April 15, 2008 at 9:16 pm)

do a piece on expanding earth theory

tigerslap (April 10, 2008 at 12:09 am)

So everyone should model their tastes after yours? Everyone should see the world as you do? You have it all figured out? Awesome.Really, thats great.

PGR777 (April 9, 2008 at 11:14 am)

I saw Matthew Barney's complete Cremaster Cycle at the Guggenheim in New York over two days some years ago. It was one of the most amazing things I've seen in contemporary art.