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Anthony Hawley
Anthony Hawley is a New York City-based multidisciplinary artist, writer, and performer. He has exhibited nationally and internationally with notable projects presented by Lubov Gallery (NY) (2023), the Guggenheim Museum’s Works & Process series (NY) (2020); The Salina Art Center (KS) (2018); Spazju Kreattiv (Malta) (2016); and the The Menil Collection with Aurora Picture Show & CounterCurrent (TX) (2016) He is a MacDowell fellow, and has also been awarded residencies at VCCA, the Hermitage Artist Retreat, Art Farm, and The Banff Centre among others. Hawley is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, The Concerto Form (2004) and Forget Reading (2008) and the artist book dear donald… (NoRoutine Books, 2021). With violinist/vocalist Rebecca Fischer, he makes up the duo The Afield, which recently performed at Anton Kern Gallery (2025), The Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center (2022) and Residency Unlimited in Brooklyn (2020). He teaches at The School of Visual Arts, Hunter College, and at MICA’s Low Residency MFA program.
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Hundreds Sign Petition in Support of Artist Shellyne Rodriguez
Scholars and artists accuse Hunter College and the School of Visual Arts of “craven hypocrisy” for firing Rodriguez as she faced vicious right-wing media attacks.
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Rewind & Play Pits a Musical Genius Against a Culture of Racism
An insidious racism is at play in interviewer Henri Renaud’s attempt to groom Thelonious Monk for public consumption on French television.
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A ’70s PSA Depicts Life for the Elderly as a Funhouse Nightmare
The Lutheran Society had no idea what they were in for when they had zombie movie icon George Romero direct The Amusement Park, long lost but now restored.
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Enjoy Every Single Agnès Varda Movie, Courtesy of a New Box Set
The Criterion Collection’s Complete Films of Agnès Varda is a tribute to the multifaceted career of the revered French director.
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Godzilla, the Most Enduring Monster of Them All, In 15 of its Most Glorious Forms
Criterion’s 1000th release is a testament to not only the monster’s legacy, but also to the importance of monsters in general to our cultural memory and history.
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Geisha, Gangsters, and More: Tokyo’s Underbelly Onscreen
For the next three weeks Film Forum presents SHITAMACHI: Tales of Downtown Tokyo, an expansive series dedicated to the city’s grittier east side, where filmmakers have long turned their lens.
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The Signature Themes in Abbas Kiarostami’s Masterful Short Films
The IFC Center is running the largest retrospective to date of Abbas Kiarostami’s work, and its short film program is full of the director’s masterfully rendered trademarks.
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Italy’s Fetishistic Giallo Genre Delivers Horror, Pleasure, and Allure
This week, the Quad is screening a series of the blood-spattered, sultry Italian thrillers from the 1960s and ’70s.
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The Delicious and Campy Queer Cinema of 1970s and ’80s Germany
The Quad Cinema in New York City is showing Queer Kino, a selection of queer cinema from East and West Germany in the 1970s and ’80s
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Unearthly Views of the World’s Oldest Spaceport
Baikonur, Earth, a documentary premiering at the Panorama Europe Film Festival, surveys the facility that launched Sputnik.
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A Filmmaker Explores His Mother’s Youth and Parses Her Disturbing Dreams
Breathless Animals, premiering in the US as part of the Art of the Real festival, captures the cadence of nonlinear memory.