Filmmaker and Artist Josh Safdie in Conversation with Dan Nadel, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Prints & Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art. Hosted by Christie's.

Join us for a special evening of art, cocktails, and canapés hosted by Christie's with 100% of tickets sales benefitting the IFPDA Foundation. Filmmaker (Marty Supreme, Uncut Gems) and artist Josh Safdie will be in conversation with Dan Nadel, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Prints & Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art on the occasion of Safdie's first edition with Two Palms, Top 10 NYC Films, 2026.

Note: Ticket holders to the October 19th Benefit hosted by Christie's will receive a 10% discount on the list price for Josh Safdie's Top 10 NYC Films, 2026, and Stanley Whitney's Untitled, 2026.

All sales benefit the IFPDA Foundation, the only US nonprofit dedicated to funding museum exhibitions, acquisitions, and curatorial internships focused on prints, editions & drawings.

Josh Safdie (b. 1984, New York) is an artist and filmmaker whose work explores the heightened textures of contemporary life, particularly the people, objects, gestures, and visual languages of New York City. Moving fluidly between observation and invention, Safdie has developed a practice rooted in an intense attention to the material world: vernacular design, advertising, clothing, architecture, signage, sports, and the accumulated visual debris through which people construct identity and desire.

Safdie’s practice is shaped by an impulse to gather, preserve, and organize the cultural artifacts and histories that surround him, approaching his native New York as a vast and continually evolving archive. His first fine art print, produced with Two Palms, takes the form of a highly personal ranking of the greatest New York City films.

Alongside his filmmaking, Josh Safdie has sustained a practice as a visual artist rooted in New York's downtown art scene. Following college, he worked as a studio assistant to the sculptor Tom Sachs, whose hands-on approach to making things has echoes in the scrappy, handmade quality of Safdie's own work. Through the creative collective Red Bucket Films, which he co-founded, Safdie has long made drawings and sculptures alongside his films. In 2012 he co-founded Museum (later renamed Mmuseumm) with Alex Kalman, a free, nonprofit space opened in a defunct freight-elevator shaft on Cortlandt Alley, behind the Red Bucket offices at 368 Broadway. Located on a small street on the edge of Chinatown, the museum exhibits everyday contemporary artifacts as a way of illustrating the complexities of the modern world, with past displays including toothpaste tubes from around the globe and papers left behind in copy machines. More recently, Safdie produced the above edition with Two Palms, which was exhibited most recently at The Armory Show in New York and has been acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art for their permanent collection.