pookiesma (October 7, 2008 at 6:57 am)

i wonder what his english teachers had to deal with when he had a paper

stickyfixer (September 18, 2008 at 5:31 pm)

I've seen the whole cycle too - it's amazing. But I'd much rather sit through the whole cycle again than have to listen to Matthew Barney talking about it ever again!

daddyslittlegirl6497 (September 8, 2008 at 10:31 pm)

hehehe his last names barney.....

thysempiternus (August 28, 2008 at 6:03 pm)

I had the oportunity to meet Mat Barney at his headquearters in LIC, NYC. I play in a death metal band and he flew my band from San Diego to NY to perform at a clandestine underground metal show/weird art expo sort of thing. He was genuinely friendly and even let my band stay at his 2 million dollar yatch. Him and Bjork are huge death metal fans. I hung out with him and his crew till sunsrise at a russian strip bar. It was a real honor meeting him.

khatmandont (August 22, 2008 at 3:29 am)

i fucking love his work, don't get me wrong, but listening to him talk is like carrying on a conversation with my 7 year old nephew. I kind of feel sorry for bjoke now

eggbertsmith (August 19, 2008 at 6:22 am)

Look, art-fans can be sheeple too! Not only people who like "Rush Hour 3" and who enjoy Britney are "sheeple"....oh no. There are art-sheep too, who cannot wait to line up and applaud anything subversive, and attach great value and meaning to even the least original garbage. But hey, if it's even just a bit "shocking", the surely it's "revolutionary", right? "breaking down walls", "brave", and "honest". Haaaaaaahaha!Art-sheep!

BloatedSensations (July 31, 2008 at 10:06 pm)

"They will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own / not being able to create art they will not understand art / they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world / not being able to love fully they will believe your love incomplete / and then they will hate you / and their hatred will be perfect / like a shining diamond / like a knife / like a mountain / like a tiger / like hemlock / their finest art" -- Bukowski

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?