The Vera List Center for Art and Politics is a research center and a public forum for art, culture, and politics.
Recent VLC Announcements
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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
Press
Hyperallergic: Rosana Paulino Reads the Archive Against Those Who Made It
Oct 19, 2026
Press
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
Press
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
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
News
Brittle Paper: Chimurenga Collective Awarded Vera List Center’s 2018-20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice
Oct 8, 2018
News
Hyperallergic: The Growing Necessity for the Vera List Center for Art and Politics
Nov 21, 2017
News
New York Times: A Seed Artist Germinates History
Oct 31, 2017
News
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
News
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