Matthew Barney Installation in Philadelphia

CremasterFanatic.com founder Eric Doeringer has created an installation of objects from his collection of Matthew Barney photographs, fan art/video, and memorabilia at The Fuel Collection, 249 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA. You can meet Eric during the opening reception for his exhibition, titled Bootlegs, Homages, and Recreations, from 6-9 pm on Friday, November 7. The exhibition will be on view through the end of December.

Drawing Restraint 9 Special Effects Photos

Gabe Bartolos, the man behind the special effects for most of Matthew Barney's films, has updated the web site for his company Atlantic West Effects to include some images from the making of Drawing Restraint 9. You can see the new photos (and some older production photos from The Cremaster Cycle) at http://www.atlanticwesteffects.com/featured/mb/index.html

Found Field Emblem - Munich

Cremaster fanatic John sent us this photograph from Munich. He writes, "There are a couple dozen of these on fence posts around a city building." For more Found Field Emblems, visit CremasterFanatic.com
Email us your submissions of found field emblems or other Matthew Barney news/pictures and we will post them online!

Matthew Barney at MoMA

Two works from Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9 are included in the Here is Every. exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The Deportment of the Host is a massive sculpture made from cast polycaprolactone thermoplastic and self-lubricating plastic depicting the tea ceremony room from the Nisshin Maru. Also on view (in the background of the above photograph) is Drawing Restraint 9: Shimenawa - a photograph of Barney and Bjork (as the Occidental Guests) kissing.

The exhibition will be on view through March 23, 2009.

Photograph from LA gal's flickr photostream.

Matthew Barney Hosts Black Metal Pig Roast

Matthew Barney hosted a pig roast/black metal concert at his studio in Long Island City, New York last weekend. The free concerts, called Remains, included the bands Inquisition, Dagon, Krallice, Copremeis, and S.M.E.S. Barney, himself, was on hand to roast and carve the pig.

Thanks to Cremaster Fanatic Clemens for sending us a link to the photos. For more pics from the concert, check out Jae Saam Trio's Flickr page.