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Matthew Barney

 
2024
Janelle Zara
“How the High-Impact Work of Matthew Barney Influenced 6 Artists”
Artnet
August 12, 2024
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Katy Diamond Hamer
“Athletics Through Film at Matthew Barney's ‘Secondary’ in New York”
Art & Object
August 6, 2024
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Jason Farago
“Matthew Barney's Time Has Come Again”
New York Times
July 23, 2024
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Kate Brown
“6 Must-See Shows to Catch at Museums in Europe This Summer’”
Artnet
July 10, 2024
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Grace Edquist
“Let's get physical! How contemporary artists have embraced athleticism”
Art Basel
July 10, 2024
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Hili Perlson
“Matthew Barney draws on a sporting horror story with video installation ‘Secondary’”
Wallpaper
July 7, 2024
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Paul Laster
“8 Must-See Solo Gallery Shows in July”
Galerie
July 3, 2024
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Boris Pofalla
“Here, Europeans no longer understand American football”
Welt
June 30, 2024
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Ella Martin-Gachot
“At the Fondation Carier, Matthew Barney Traces the Formal Aftermath of One of Football's Greatest Tragedies”
Cultured
June 7, 2024
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Eliza Jordan
“Matthew Barney Returns to Paris with ‘SECONDARY’ at the Fondation Cartier”
Whitewall
June 3, 2024
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Arwa Mahdawi
“‘Stress and failure’: Matthew Barney on his film about the sports accident that traumatised America”
The Guardian
May 22, 2024
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Andy Battaglia
"In Five New Shows, Matthew Barney Turns His Abstract Football Film Into Sculptures and Paintings”
ARTnews
May 17, 2024
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Mark Westall
“Matthew Barney's First Institutional Exhibition in France for over 10 Years to Open at Fondation Cartier Pour L'Art Contemporain”
FAD Magazine
April 26, 2024
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“Chains or Whip”
Downtown Critic
March 21, 2024
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2023
Lisa Yin Zhang
“The Top Ten Shows in the United States in 2023”
Frieze
December 22, 2023
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Chris Doyen
“Matthew Barney's REPRESSIA (decline) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art”
Whitehot Magazine
December 5, 2023
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Ross Simonini
“Matthew Barney: No Pain, No Gain”
Art Review
September 1, 2023
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Walter Chaw
“The Transformative Power of Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle”
RogerEbert.com
May 17, 2023
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Linda Yablonsky
“Secondary”
The Art Newspaper
May 25, 2023
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Max Levin
“Secondary”
Screen Slate
May 25, 2023
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Max Wiener
“Matthew Barney | Secondary”
Musée Magazine
May 30, 2023
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Domenick Ammirati
“Frieze Week: Let's Fucking Gooooooooooo?”
Spigot
May 15, 2023
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Shawn Ghassemitari
“Matthew Barney Returns With a Chilling Meditation on Football”
Hypebeast
May 16, 2023
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Jeffrey Kastner
“Matthew Barney: Secondary”
4Columns
June 23, 2023
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Brecht Wright Gander
“The Beauty and Hokiness of Sport in Matthew Barney’s ‘Secondary’”
Frieze
June 20, 2023
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Dan Duray
“Five Things to Do in New York’s Art Scene This Week”
Observer
June 5, 2023
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Sam Gaskin
“Matthew Barney’s ‘Secondary’ Called His Best Work in Years”
Ocula
May 19, 2023
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Alex Greenberger
“Matthew Barney Returns with His Best Work in Years, a Shocking Video About America’s Favorite Sport”
ARTnews
May 15, 2023
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Alex Greenberger
“Matthew Barney to Debut New Video Installation About ‘Violence and Spectacle’ in American Football”
ARTnews
May 15, 2023
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Siddhartha Mitter
“Matthew Barney, Back in the Game”
New York Times
May 14, 2023
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Torey Akers
“Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle returns to the big screen in New York”
The Art Newspaper
May 10, 2023
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2022
Jeon Yeoul
“구속의 드로잉, 매튜 바니”
W Korea
October 28, 2022
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2021
Jason Farago
“10 Works of Art That Evaded the Algorithm This Year”
The New York Times
December 8, 2021
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Katie McCabe
“‘Wolves are nothing like dogs’: Matthew Barney on the lessons of his epic art film ‘Redoubt’”
TimeOut
June 4, 2021
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Peter Bradshaw
“Redoubt review – Matthew Barney’s mysterious, mythical movie-ballet”
The Guardian
May 18, 2021
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Ben Luke
“Matthew Barney Redoubt at Hayward Gallery review: you need to be there”
Evening Standard
May 18, 2021
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Rachel Campbell-Johnston
“Matthew Barney: Redoubt review — artist’s film will make you see things anew”
The Times
May 17, 2021
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2020
Robert Abele
“Review: Matthew Barney takes to nature to ask his big questions in ‘Redoubt’”
Los Angeles Times
January 23, 2020
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2019
David D’Arcy
“In Redoubt, Matthew Barney retells an ancient myth in a survivalist American landscape”
The Art Newspaper
November 1, 2019
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Glenn Kenny
“‘Redoubt’ Review: Diana the Huntress Manifests in Idaho”
The New York Times
October 29, 2019
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Jason Farago
“A Lighter Matthew Barney Goes Back to School, and Back Home”
The New York Times
March 21, 2019
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Sebastian Smee
“Who wants to join the cult of video artist Matthew Barney?”
The Washington Post
March 8, 2019
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Catherine Taft
“Survivor Syndrome”
Artforum
March 2019
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Andy Battaglia
“Wolves at the Door: Matthew Barney on Animals, Alchemy, and Art in His New Film and Exhibition, ‘Redoubt’”
Artnews
February 28, 2019
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2017
“1 interview and 1 creative wisdom with Matthew Barney here”
The Creative Independent
November 7, 2017
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Jason Farago
“Interview: Matthew Barney”
Even
Spring, 2017
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2016
Alex Kitnick
“Matthew Barney”
Artforum
December, 2016
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Jerry Saltz
“A New Show Restages Matthew Barney's 1991 Breakthrough and It's Even Better the Second Time”
New York Magazine
October 14, 2016
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Blake Gopnik
“Matthew Barney’s Early Work Is Messed Up, and It Rivals Cezanne”
Artnet News
October 13, 2016
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Ken Johnson
“What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week”
The New York Times
October 6, 2016
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William S. Smith
“Matthew Barney”
Art in America
October 6, 2016
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Darragh McNicholas
“MATTHEW BARNEY Facility of Decline”
The Brooklyn Rail
October 4, 2016
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Jennifer Krasinski
“Matthew Barney at Gladstone: Gorgeous, Creepy, and Sublimely Strange”
The Village Voice
September 5, 2016
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“Matthew Barney”
The New Yorker
July 21, 2016
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2015
Randy Kennedy
“A Most Punishing Tour”
The New York Times
September 20, 2015
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Anthony Byrt
“Review: RIVER OF FUNDAMENT at the Museum of Old and New Art”
Artforum
May 2015
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Elizabeth Fortescue
“Matthew Barney: Exploding the Myths”
The Art Newspaper
January 2015
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John Buffalo Mailer
“Modern Myth”
Wallpaper*
January 2015
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2014
Ross Simonini
“Both and Neither: On Matthew Barney, Debbie Harry and The Uncanny”
ARTAND Australia
December 2014
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David Sefton
“MONA and David Walsh Welcome Matthew Barney's River of Fundament”
The Australian
November 22, 2014
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Ross Simonini
“Black Water: Combustion and digestion in Matthew Barneys latest work”
Frieze
May 2014
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David Ebony
“MATTHEW BARNEY: New York—Brooklyn Academy of Music”
Art in America
May 2014
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Matt Pieknik
“Crude Thoughts & Fierce Forces: Matthew Barney’s ‘River of Fundament’”
The American Reader
April 22, 2014
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“These Weary Territories: A Conversation Between Matthew Barney and Okwui Enwezor”
Modern Painters
April 2014
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Linda Yablonsky
“Sexy Beast”
T Magazine
February 16, 2014
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Andy Battaglia
“River of Fundament”
The Paris Review
February 12, 2014
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Jed Perl
“Matthew Barney’s New Epic Is a Mythomaniacal Mailer-Hemingway Mash-Up And he’s more scatological than ever”
The New Republic
February 11, 2014
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2013
Brienne Walsh
“REVIEW: ‘Subliming the Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney’”
Modern Painters
August 29, 2013
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“On the Horizon”
The New Yorker
March 18, 2013
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Carol Vogel
“Matthew Barney Heads To the Morgan Library”
The New York Times
March 1, 2013
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“Juxtapoz Presents: Lance Mountain X Matthew Barney in Detroit, Parts 1 & 2”
Juxtapoz
January 8, 2013
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2012
Andy Battaglia
“An Artist's River Journey Into a Writer's World”
The Wall Street Journal
October 27, 2012
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2011
Jeffrey Kastner
“Matthew Barney: Gladstone Gallery”
Artforum
December 2011
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David Ebony
“Matthew Barney, Gladstone”
Art in America
December 2011
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Linda Yablonsky
“Artifacts: Matthew Barney”
The New York Times Magazine
September 26, 2011
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Jerry Saltz
“Imported From Detroit”
New York Magazine
September 23, 2011
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Dodie Kazanjian
“Fall's Can't Miss Art Shows”
Vogue
September 8, 2011
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Julie Belcove
“Forged in Myth”
The Financial Times
September 3/4, 2011
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2010
Zac Rose
“Matthew Barney Ancient Evenings”
032c
Summer 2010
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2009
Linda Yablonsky
“Greek Mythology”
Artforum
June 23, 2009
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Item Idem
“Now Viewing | ‘Blood of Two’”
The Moment Blog
June 17, 2009
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2008
Sonia Campagnola
“Matthew Barney”
Flash Art
October 2008
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“Matthew Barney / David Cronenberg”
TAR Magazine
Fall 2008
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Louise Neri
“Civilisation and Its Discontents: Barney and Bepler's Ren
Domus
September 2008
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Christopher Bollen
“Ren Master”
Interview
August 2008
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2007
Jerry Saltz
“The Year in Culture: ART: Best Show, Matthew Barney”
New York Magazine
December 17, 2007
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Richard Dorment
“A visionary straining at the leash”
The Daily Telegraph
September 18, 2007
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Martin Herbert
“The Postman Rings Twice”
Artforum
September 2007
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Jonathan Griffin
“Il Tempo del Postino”
frieze
September 2007
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Dieter Ronte
“Matthew Barney”
Kaiserring Publications
September 2007
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Richard Dorment
“A triumph of shock and awe”
The Telegraph
July 17, 2007
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Jess Holl
“Generally Speaking”
BlackBook
April/May 2007
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2006
Matthew Barney and Arthur C. Danto
“Blood & Iron”
Modern Painters
September 2006
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Tessa DeCarlo
“Rocky Goes to RISD”
The Brooklyn Rail
June 2006
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Linda Yablonsky
“A Satyr Wrapped In an Enigma”
ARTNews
June 2006
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Mia Fineman
“Looks Brilliant on Paper. But Who, Exactly, Is Going to Make It?”
The New York Times
May 7, 2006
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Neville Wakefield
“Drawing Restraint 9: Matthew Barney”
ArtReview
May 2006
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2003
Calvin Tompkins
“His Body, Himself”
The New Yorker
January 27, 2003
 
1999
Michael Kimmelman
“The Importance of Matthew Barney”
The New York Times Magazine
October 10, 1999
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1995
Stuart Morgan
“Of Goats and Men”
frieze
January/February 1995
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Norman Bryson
“Matthew Barney's Gonadotrophic Cavalcade”
Parkett
Issue 45, 1995
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Michel Onfray
“Mannerist Variations on Matthew Barney”
Parkett
Issue 45, 1995
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Keith Seward
“Matthew Barney and Beyond”
Parkett
Issue 45, 1995
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Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
“Matthew Barney 95: Suspension [Cremaster], Secretion [pearl], Secret [biology]”
Parkett
Issue 45, 1995
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