Tribeca Film Festival “Anna Christie Entering the Barn 1965-67,” a work by the artist Robert De Niro Sr. that will be presented to a filmmaker at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.2:22 p.m. | Updated
Creating cinema for the sake of art should, in principle, be its own reward. But winners at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival will be rewarded with an additional work of art: those filmmakers will receive one of nine pieces, including paintings, photographs, prints and sculptures that have been contributed to the festival’s Artists Awards Program. On Wednesday, the festival’s organizers said that the contemporary artists whose works will be featured this year would include Will Ryman, the creator of the Park Avenue public art installation “The Roses”; the sculptor Tom Otterness; and Robert De Niro Sr., the expressionist painter and father of the Tribeca festival co-founder Robert De Niro. The work from Mr. De Niro Sr. (who died in 1993) will be a lithograph, “Anna Christie Entering the Barn 1965-67″; others in the program, which will be shown in an exhibition in April, include “Reversed 5th Avenue, 2007,” a painting by Mark Innerst, and “Harmonium (3×3), 2010,” a print by Clifford Ross, as well as art by Inka Essenhigh, Stephen Hannock, Nate Lowman and Taryn Simon.
The Tribeca Film Festival runs from April 20 through May 1.
An earlier version of this post, using information provided by a publicist, misspelled the name of the artist Taryn Simon.