You may know Matthew Barney as a gruff, bearded avant-garde art darling. Or perhaps you know him in costume as a dapper mythical goat man. ...

Today we are wishing a wonderful birthday to Matthew Barney, the visionary sculptor, filmmaker and performer behind the CREMASTER Cycle. The avant-gar...

Happy birthday to one of the most influential multi-disciplinary artists of our time, Matthew Barney. His truly unhinged creativity never ceases to am...

Legendary magician Harry Houdini was the master of spectacle, provocation and surprise. Born Ehrich Weiss, a rabbi's son, Houdini soon became an inter...

Nothing says "I love you... and I'm an intellectual, I swear!!!" like a thoughtful and stimulating book. Valentine's Day is stressful enough as it is,...

There was a time when the artist at work meant hours of solitude, piles of tossed-out failed works, and clothes covered in smudges of charcoal and pai...

You've probably heard by now that Hollywood's bad-girl-turned-good Drew Barrymore and her dreamy art consultant boyfriend Will Kopelman are now engage...

Simply put, important new artists are most likely to emerge in the same cities where important artists have emerged in the recent past. And even more narrowly, in recent decades important new artists have been most likely to emerge from the same academic institutions that have produced important artists in the past.

Art has both been proclaimed and accused of many dubious feats in the last century and a half. Now resurrecting the dead counts among them.

Matthew Barney's latest exhibit, "DJED," at the Gladstone Gallery explores Egyptian conceptions of the afterlife that Barney first tackled in his 2010...

"Installation pieces are problematic," said Manhattan contemporary art gallery owner Renato Danese, an understatement if there ever was one.

WHO: Matthew Barney, Walead Beshty, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Katharina Fritsch, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Wade Guyton, Pierre Huyghe, Sergej Jensen, A...

"We see ourselves in order to exist," states the narrator-host, in Matthew Day Jackson's new video In Search Of, a 30-minute mock TV show, modeled aft...

New York's art scene is fairly sedate in August (though we did manage to pick out ten can't-miss shows), so it's the perfect time to wax cosmopolitan....