Anthology Film Archives is a center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video, with a particular focus on independent, experimental, and avant-garde cinema.

Anthology’s Benefit Art Project began in the early 1980s with two limited edition art and photography portfolios of work by twenty-six leading twentieth-century artists, including Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, Joseph Beuys, William Wegman and others, to help raise funds for the transformation of the historic Second Avenue Courthouse building to the new home of Anthology Film Archives.

The Benefit Art Project relaunched in 2012 with generous donations from leading contemporary artists, including Robert Polidori, John Baldessari, and Martin Puryear. This growing fundraising initiative includes newly commissioned work, printed in limited edition fine art prints, signed and dated by the artist.