Mythology, Mortality, Mailer, and Vaseline: Matthew Barney at the Morgan » Matthew Barney, Drawing Restraint, 2013, (20th in a series of performances), weights, pad, buckets, graphite, chalk, petroleum jelly. Copyright Matthew Barney. Image courtesy the Morgan Library and Museum, New York.

Matthew Barney, Drawing Restraint, 2013, (20th in a series of performances), weights, pad, buckets, graphite, chalk, petroleum jelly. Copyright Matthew Barney. Image courtesy the Morgan Library and Museum, New York.

Matthew Barney, Drawing Restraint, 2013, (20th in a series of performances), weights, pad, buckets, graphite, chalk, petroleum jelly. Copyright Matthew Barney. Image courtesy the Morgan Library and Museum, New York.

Matthew Barney, Ancient Evenings: Ba Libretto, 2009, ink, graphite and gold leaf on paperback copy of Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer, on carved salt base, in nylon and acrylic vitrine 15 1/2 x 13 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches. Collection of Marguerite Steed Hoffman, Dallas, TX. Copyright Matthew Barney.
Matthew Barney, HYPERTROPHY (incline), 1991, light-reflective vinyl, graphite pencil, and petroleum jelly on paper in self-lubricating plastic frame,10 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 1 1/4 inches. The Museum of Modern Art, New York; gift of R. L. B. Tobin. Copyright Matthew Barney. Digital image courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY.

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