The American SetA Full Day Set Aside for Matthew Barney in Chelsea
Matthew Barney's River of Fundament will be shown in Chelsea on November 14, and the evening will run eight hours. The venue is the Masonic Hall, which puts the film inside a Manhattan lodge rather than a gallery or a theater. For anyone who follows Barney, this is a rare chance to watch the work from beginning to end in one room, without splitting it across visits. Eight hours is a real commitment, and people who come will be making a day of it. Chelsea is New York's gallery district, which makes it a natural setting, but here the room people will sit in is a Masonic hall. On November 14, River of Fundament will take the whole evening, and it deserves to be seen that way.
With reporting from ARTnews.