Matthew Barney & Jonathan Meese in New York

While looking around the internet for pictures of Barney's Guardian of the Veil performance in Manchester, I found some more photographs of the performance in New York City last may. The performance was held at Barney's new studio in Long Island City, and also featured performances by Jonathan Meese (pictured with Barney above) and Michael Rees.

Cremaster 2 @ AFI New York

The Anthology Film Archives in NYC will be screening Cremaster 2 on July 28th and August 1st as part of their "The Mistress and the Muse: The Films of Normal Mailer" series:

www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule/?start=2007-7-22&end=2007-7-31&submit=Search
www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule/?start=2007-8-01&end=2007-8-07&submit=Search

"An elaborate reworking of the gothic western, the second film in Barney's CREMASTER cycle (though the third produced – he didn't make the films in order) takes us to the salt flats of Utah and to the heart of a modern day American myth. Loosely based on Norman Mailer's THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG, CREMASTER 2… explores the mythology surrounding career-criminal Gary Gilmore: his relation to Harry Houdini [as played by Mailer himself]…who was possibly Gilmore's grandfather; his conception; his notorious murder of a gas station attendant; his Mormonism and belief in the redemptive powers of immortality; and his execution, carried out in a final sequence of considerable power… Combining majestic shots of the Utah landscape with a trash aesthetic that takes in rodeo, thrash metal and 1970s kitsch Americana, Barney elevates – much as Mailer did – the tale of Gilmore into a meditation on fate and martyrdom." –CHANNEL FOUR