The Vera List Center for Art and Politics is a research center and a public forum for art, culture, and politics.

Recent VLC Announcements

Tote Bag

Tȟokátakiya Owótȟaŋla na Awíyuškiŋphiča [A Just and Joyful Future] (For the Vera List Center)

Oct 9, 2026

Announcement

Announcing Fall 2026 Programming

Sep 2, 2026

Book Fair

Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair 2026

Aug 31, 2026

Tribute

Koyo Kouoh: Interdependencies

May 4, 2026

Announcement

A VLC Resource Guide for Fall of Freedom

May 1, 2026

Announcement

Announcing Spring 2026 Programming

Feb 2, 2026

Open Call

Open Call: Vera List New School Art Collection Writing Awards 2026

Nov 14, 2025

Announcement

2025–2027 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice Recipient: Rosana Paulino

Oct 20, 2025

Tribute

Remembering Agnes Gund (1938–2025)

Sep 25, 2025

Announcement

Cultural Freedom Demands Collective Courage: A Nation-Wide Statement of Values and Principles for the Field Of Arts And Culture

Aug 25, 2025

Announcement

2025–2027 VLC Fellows

May 29, 2025

Archive

VLC Announcement Archive (2018–)

Recent Press

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Hyperallergic: Rosana Paulino Reads the Archive Against Those Who Made It

Oct 19, 2026

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Momus: Life is Dance, Dance is Death, Life is Dance with Death: The Art of Moriah Evans

Oct 2, 2026

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e-flux: Bad reputations: “Matter of Intelligence” and the “Gossip Work” seminar

Jul 1, 2026

Announcement

Defending Solidarity at ArtsLink Assembly 2025

Nov 18, 2025

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ArtReview: Is the Artworld Intelligent?

Dec 3, 2025

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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians: Carmen Amengual’s A Non-Coincidental Mirror

Dec 1, 2025

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Art Movements: Marina Abramović, Rosana Paulino, AI Art Museum

Oct 13, 2025

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Ocula Magazine: Rosana Paulino Wins $25K Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice

Oct 20, 2025

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Artforum: Rosana Paulino Awarded Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice

Oct 21, 2025

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Prazzle Arts: Rosana Paulino Wins 2025–2027 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice

Oct 21, 2025

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ArtReview: Over 150 US Cultural Institutions Speak Out Against State Censorship

Aug 26, 2025

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CNN: ‘A national emergency’: As Trump goes after the arts, many museums remain silent

Sep 28, 2025

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Artnet News: Artists and Organizations Rally Against Censorship in Open Letter

Aug 26, 2025

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New York Times: As Trump Targets the Smithsonian, Museums Across the US Feel a Chill

Aug 23, 2025

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Momus The Podcast: Post/doc with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics

Aug 19, 2025

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New York Times: “An Incomplete* Listing of Libraries, Reading Rooms, and Archives” at Frieze New York

May 8, 2025

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Artnet News: ‘Nobody’s Coming to Save Us’: How U.S. Museums Are Battling for Their Future Under Trump

Apr 28, 2025

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e-flux Notes: The Voice of the Wet Concrete: A Conversation with Carmen Amengual and Soyoung Yoon

Feb 10, 2025

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Brooklyn Rail: Carmen Amengual’s A Non-Coincidental Mirror

Jan 15, 2025

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New School News: The Vera List Center for Art and Politics Explores “Correct History*” in 2024 Forum Topic

Dec 12, 2024

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Brooklyn Rail: Anna Martine Whitehead: FORCE! an opera in three acts

Nov 18, 2024

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Mousse Magazine: The Vow by TJ Shin

Aug 26, 2024

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A.R.T. Notes: Vera List Center for Art and Politics

Apr 11, 2024

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C Magazine: Review of Maria Hupfield’s Breaking Protocol

Apr 15, 2024

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New School News: The Vera List Center for Art and Politics Presents New School New Books Event Series

Apr 4, 2024

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NO NIIN: These Conditions (Are Only Worsening): An Interview with Adelita Husni-Bey

Mar 1, 2024

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The Brooklyn Rail & the Vera List Center for Art and Politics: Conversations on Freedom of Speech

A book with a black cover placed on a light gray background; white text on the cover reads "Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech, edited by Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich" in a serif font. Red, blue, and green edge printing; green and blue edges visible.

Feb 20, 2024

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New School Free Press: How the Vera List Center brings art from all over the world to The New School’s galleries

Oct 31, 2023

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Times Union: The Volcano that Journeyed up the Hudson River

Oct 27, 2023

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Arts of the Working Class: VLC Correction* Seminar on Indigenous Cultural Revitalization featured in AWC Issue 27: Kinships

Jul 13, 2023

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New School News: The Vera List Center for Art and Politics Celebrates 30 Years with a Forum, New Fellows, and More

Nov 10, 2022

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Artforum: Aboriginal Collective proppaNOW Wins Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice

Nov 4, 2022

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The Guardian: Brisbane-based Indigenous Art Collective proppaNOW Wins Prestigious Global Prize

Oct 21, 2022

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Hyperallergic: Art as an Exercise in Moving Through Grief

Mar 21, 2022

Press Archive

News

BOMB: Digesting Place: Dean Erdmann Interviewed by Amanda Parmer

Jan 30, 2020

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Brittle Paper: Chimurenga Collective Awarded Vera List Center’s 2018-20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice

Oct 8, 2018

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Hyperallergic: The Growing Necessity for the Vera List Center for Art and Politics

Nov 21, 2017

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New York Times: A Seed Artist Germinates History

Oct 31, 2017

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Mondoweiss: On boycotts, Palestine, and resistance – a review of ‘Assuming Boycott’

Aug 23, 2017

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New York Times: Syrian Film Collective Offers View of Life Behind a Conflict

Oct 18, 2015

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New York Times: New School Prize Goes to Theaster Gates

Nov 11, 2012

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Art21: 5 Questions with Carin Kuoni of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics

Nov 18, 2010