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

VLC Announcements

Announcement

Remembering Lorraine O’Grady (1934–2024)

Dec 19, 2024

Book Fair

Storefront for Art and Architecture Book Bash 2024

Dec 14, 2024

Book Fair

Press Play 2024 at Pioneer Works

Dec 7, 2024

Open Call

2025–2027 Matter of Intelligence Focus Theme and Open Call

Nov 6, 2024

Announcement

Announcing Fall 2024 Programs

Sep 3, 2024

Announcement

Sabbatical Year: Slowing Down and Recalibrating our Rhythm

Jul 30, 2024

Book Fair

Other Islands Book Fair 2024 at Pratt Institute

Apr 13, 2024

Announcement

VLC Welcomes Five New Advisory Board Members; Names Two New Vice Chairs

Announcement

Announcing Spring 2024 Programs

Jan 29, 2024

Announcement

Maria Hupfield’s Breaking Protocol centers on performance practices grounded in indigenous knowledge and sovereignty

Oct 6, 2023

Announcement

Announcing Fall 2023 Programs

Aug 28, 2023

Announcement

Studies into Darkness included in AUPresses 2023 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show

Apr 27, 2023

Announcement

New book by Maria Thereza Alves reveals the entangled histories of plants and displaced people

Maria Thereza Alves: Seeds of Change. Edited by Carin Kuoni and Wilma Lukatch. Published by Amherst College Press and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, 2023. Designed by Common Name. 216 pages. Photograph by Re'al Christian, courtesy the Vera List Center. Front cover: image from Seeds of Change: Liverpool, 2004, wraps around front and back cover. Dark green text on a light brown background reads: Maria Thereza Alves Seeds of Change Edited by Carin Kuoni and Wilma Lukatsch

Jan 23, 2023

Book Fair

MISS READ Book Fair 2023

Sep 18, 2023

Book Fair

Other Islands Book Fair 2023 at Pratt Institute

Mar 20, 2023

Announcement

Announcing Spring 2023 Programs

Jan 23, 2023

Announcement

Remembering Ronald Feldman, 1938–2022 | Founding Member, Vera List Center Advisory Committee

Jan 10, 2023

Book Fair

Storefront for Art and Architecture Book Bash 2023

Dec 11, 2023

Book Fair

Press Play 2023 at Pioneer Works

Nov 22, 2023

Announcement

New Appointments and Staff Promotions at the VLC

Nov 18, 2022

Announcement

The Vera List Center for Art and Politics stands in solidarity with part-time faculty and student workers at The New School

Nov 16, 2022

Announcement

2022–2024 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice Recipient: proppaNOW

Oct 22, 2022

Announcement

Announcing Fall 2022 Programs

Aug 29, 2022

Announcement

2022–2024 Vera List Center Fellows

Jun 30, 2022

Announcement

Amherst College Press and Vera List Center Announce New Publishing Partnership

Three identical books with a black cover placed in a stack 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.

May 1, 2022

Open Call

Open Call: 2022–2024 Vera List Center Fellowships

Jan 11, 2022

Announcement

The Vera List Center is Expanding!

Jan 11, 2022

Announcement

2020-2022 Prize Recipient: Avni Sethi

Oct 10, 2020

Announcement

VLC Welcomes Five New Advisory Board Members

Jul 17, 2020

Announcement

2020-2022 Borderlands Fellowship

Jun 26, 2020

Announcement

2020-2022 Vera List Center Fellows

Announcement

Solidarity with Racial Justice Movements

Jun 3, 2020

Announcement

2018–2020 Prize Recipient: Chimurenga

Apr 10, 2018

Recent Press

Press

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

Dec 12, 2024

Press

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

Nov 18, 2024

Press

Mousse Magazine: The Vow by TJ Shin

Aug 26, 2024

Press

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

Apr 11, 2024

Press

C Magazine: Review of Maria Hupfield’s Breaking Protocol

Apr 15, 2024

Press

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

Apr 4, 2024

Press

New School Free Press: How the Spitting Image Art Book Fair is using printed matter to foster community

Apr 1, 2024

Press

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

Mar 1, 2024

Press

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

Press

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

Press

Times Union: The Volcano that Journeyed up the Hudson River

Oct 27, 2023

Press

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

Jul 13, 2023

Press

New School News: The Vera List Center for Art and Politics Hosts Reading Room Featuring Faculty Books

Jun 28, 2023

Press

Topical Cream: Blessings and Transmutations: An Interview with Fox Maxy

May 10, 2023

Press

BOMB: Adelita Husni Bey by Amal Khalaf

Apr 5, 2023

Press

New School News: Matti Aikio, Sámi Fellow at the Vera List Center, Explores Legacies of Settler Colonialism

Mar 9, 2023

Press

Public Seminar: A Botany of Decolonization—An excerpt from Maria Thereza Alves: Seeds of Change

Feb 3, 2023

Press

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

Nov 10, 2022

Press

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

Nov 4, 2022

Press

Public Seminar: Can Art Reimagine Freedom of Speech? A Conversation on Studies into Darkness

Nov 1, 2022

Press

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

Oct 21, 2022

Press

Hyperallergic: Art as an Exercise in Moving Through Grief

Mar 21, 2022

Press

New York Times: Art We Saw This Spring—featuring Adelita Husni Bey

Apr 6, 2022

Press

MARCH: On Necessary Work

May 24, 2022

Press

The Architect’s Newspaper: Adelita Husni Bey examines pandemics past, present, and future at the Brooklyn Army Terminal

Mar 30, 2022

Press

New School News: Artist Suzanne Kite Debuts New Show in Partnership with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics

Dec 13, 2021

Press

New School News: The Vera List Center Expands Support for Indigenous Artists with the Inaugural Borderlands Fellowship

Mar 4, 2021

Press Archive

News

BOMB: Digesting Place: Dean Erdmann Interviewed by Amanda Parmer

Jan 30, 2020

News

Art Papers: Art Isn’t Neutral, A Conversation With Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich

Oct 1, 2019

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

News

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

News

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

Nov 18, 2010