Icelandic magazine Séð og Heyrt reports that Matthew Barney and the musician Bjork, his long time romantic partner, have parted ways, according to
newsoficeland.com. Barney and Bjork have a daughter, Isadora, born in 2002.
Potrait of Matthew Barney by Elizabeth Peyton
Gawker reports a rumor that Barney is now romantically linked to "sometimes-lesbian" painter
Elizabeth Peyton. Barney and Peyton had a joint exhibtion,
The Blood of Two, at the
Deste Foundation in Greece in 2009. The show included several portraits of Barney by Peyton. Peyton divorced her husband, artist
Rirkrit Tiravanija, in 2004.
Gawker
recently reported that Barney and Bjork purchased a 3,000 square foot penthouse apartment at 160 Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights and were selling their West Village abode with an asking price of $1.7 million. The site now speculates, "Either they bought the Brooklyn house so that one of them could live their with their daughter, or they just wanted more room."
