Our Archive collects nearly 500 public events with artists, scholars, historians, and other thinkers and makers who consider wide-ranging topics of social relevance.

2024

Mental Wellness Film Workshop with Fox MaxyNew School New Books 2024Studies into Darkness: Manifestos, in Genre and in PracticeSeminar 11: Many ReturnsOff ScriptThe Brooklyn Rail & the Vera List Center for Art and Politics: Conversations on Freedom of SpeechSeminar 10: Reducing Harm (As Prompt, As Practice)Announcing Spring 2024 Programs

2023

Seminar 9: Of Bodies and Sound야생의 파도와 함께 with tides of the wildValerie Cassel Oliver. Black Ontology: The Subversive Beauty of SoulStorefront for Art and Architecture Book BashIn Common: Romare Bearden and New Approaches to Art, Race & EconomyPress Play 2023 at Pioneer WorksSeminar 8: “Hader Halal” (With Regard to Presence)In Common: Romare Bearden and New Approaches to Art, Race & EconomyIn Common: New Approaches with Romare BeardenBreaking ProtocolNew School Free Press: How the Vera List Center brings art from all over the world to The New School’s galleriesBeatriz Cortez: Ilopango, the Volcano that LeftTimes Union: The volcano that journeyed up the Hudson RiverIn Solidarity with Victims of Violence: A Resource Guide and ArchiveVLC Forum 2023: Igniting Resistance: A Conversation with Colectivo CheraniVLC Forum 2023: farid rakun: On space, or putting the ruang in ruangrupaVLC Forum 2023: On Learning TogetherVLC Forum 2023: Community Dinner and PartyVLC Forum 2023: Blackness Is…: Global Black and Indigenous SolidaritiesVLC Forum 2023: Prize Ceremony and Conversation proppaNOW with Wanda NanibushVLC Forum 2023: Impossible Structures with Khalil RabahVLC Forum 2023: Unchrono/logical Timeline Activation Chapter 2.2 New YorkVera List Center Forum 2023: Correction*Another Roadmap Africa Cluster: Another Roadmap SchoolColectivo Cherani: Cherán Cultural CenterKhalil Rabah: The Palestinian Museum of Natural History and HumankindKUNCI Study Forum & Collective: School of Improper EducationOn CountryproppaNOW: OCCURRENT AFFAIRVera List Center Forum 2023: Correction*proppaNOW: There Goes the Neighbourhood!Breaking Protocol Book LaunchMaria Hupfield’s Breaking Protocol centers on performance practices grounded in indigenous knowledge and sovereigntyBeatriz Cortez: Voids, Portals, and Moving LandSeminar 7: Bring into Order: School(ing) as a War of CorrectionMISS READ 2023“My language has disappeared.” A Conversation on Studies into DarknessAnnouncing Fall 2023 ProgramsArts of the Working Class: VLC Correction* Seminar on Indigenous Cultural Revitalization featured in AWC Issue 27: KinshipsNew School News: The Vera List Center for Art and Politics Hosts Reading Room Featuring Faculty BooksDemon of the heartParadoxical IntelligenceLibraries in Practice: Tending Toward LiberationTopical Cream: Blessings and Transmutations: An Interview with Fox MaxySeminar 6: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization: Rematriation and PreservationStudies into Darkness included in AUPresses 2023 Book, Jacket, and Journal ShowMaria Thereza Alves: Seeds of ChangeLibraries as Correctives: C& Center of Unfinished Business, Keleketla! Library, and Sister Library with Asia Art ArchiveNew School New Books: A Reading SeriesSeminar 5: Lupus as an Operating SystemBOMB: Adelita Husni Bey by Amal KhalafArt Collection Writing Award, 2022–2023C& Center of Unfinished BusinessC& Center of Unfinished BusinessAriella Aïsha Azoulay: the world like a jewel in the handOther Islands Book Fair 2023 at Pratt InstituteConflicting RelationsNew School News: Matti Aikio, Sámi Fellow at the Vera List Center, Explores Legacies of Settler ColonialismSeminar 4: Becoming One: The University Between Labor Struggles and Communities of CareSeminar 3: Correcting Mistaken Ideas: Revisiting the People’s Program at Lincoln Hospital with Walter BosquePublic Seminar: A Botany of Decolonization—An excerpt from Maria Thereza Alves: Seeds of ChangeCybercultures and CyberfeminismsWild plants, queer landscapesAnnouncing Spring 2023 ProgramsNew book by Maria Thereza Alves reveals the entangled histories of plants and displaced peopleRemembering Ronald Feldman, 1938–2022 | Founding Member, Vera List Center Advisory Committee

2022

And Let Us Sayon asterisks (*for the stars)Post/docSiddhartha Mitter: Moving the CenterNew Appointments and Staff Promotions at the VLCThe Vera List Center for Art and Politics stands in solidarity with part-time faculty and student workers at The New SchoolNew School News: The Vera List Center for Art and Politics Celebrates 30 Years with a Forum, New Fellows, and MoreSeminar 2: Virus BecomingArtforum: Aboriginal Collective proppaNOW Wins Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social JusticePublic Seminar: Can Art Reimagine Freedom of Speech? A Conversation on Studies into DarknessVLC Forum 2022: A Time for Correction*, Introducing the 2022–2024 VLC FellowsVLC Forum 2022: FORCE! an opera in three acts with Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty2022–2024 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice Recipient: proppaNOWShuddhabrata Sengupta, Raqs Media Collective. Emendations: 30 Years of Art and PoliticsThe Guardian: Brisbane-based Indigenous Art Collective proppaNOW Wins Prestigious Global PrizeVLC Forum 2022: Make Room!Vera List Center Forum 2022: Correction*Vera List Center Forum 2022: Correction*Labor of Love: Vera List Center for Art and Politics at 30Breaking Protocol: A Conversation with Maria HupfieldStudies into Darkness: Editors and Artists in ConversationStudies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of SpeechSeminar 1: Ashes to Artifact: Cultural Death, Repair, and Restitution of the Benin BronzesCorrection* Seminar SeriesWe’re Hiring! Borderlands Curatorial FellowshipAnnouncing Fall 2022 Programs2022–2024 Vera List Center FellowsStudies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech Book LaunchMARCH: On Necessary WorkEtcétera: NEO-EXTRA-ACTIVISM–Protocols for Buen VivirNEO-EXTRA-ACTIVISM–Protocols for Buen VivirSeminar 12: Breaking Protocols: Desire LinesLa SiembraMaria Hupfield: Super Massive Thunder Boom Ultimate CollectionAmherst College Press and Vera List Center Announce New Publishing PartnershipPrime Meridian UnconferenceVisiting Artist Lecture: Rasheedah Phillips/Black Quantum FuturismNew York Times: Art We Saw This Spring—featuring Adelita Husni BeySeminar 11: Forces of Art: Protocols of EvaluationBlack Quantum Futurism: Time Zone ProtocolsBlack Quantum Futurism: Time Zone ProtocolsOn Conditions and Conditionality: Ecological Injustices and the Biopolitics of ResistanceThese Conditions: Family Saturdays at Brooklyn Army TerminalThe Architect’s Newspaper: Adelita Husni Bey examines pandemics past, present, and future at the Brooklyn Army TerminalHyperallergic: Art as an Exercise in Moving Through GriefOn Necessary WorkSeminar 10: School of Tomorrow: From the Open Plan to the Tele-classroomTeach-In on Ukraine for Artists, Activists, and Arts WorkersThese Conditions: DuvetA Reading Inside These Conditions Remote Control: Surveying Drones and Culture TodayAdelita Husni Bey: These ConditionsAdelita Husni Bey: These ConditionsAnnouncing Spring 2022 ProgramsOpen Call: 2022–2024 Vera List Center FellowshipsThe Vera List Center is Expanding!

2021

New School News: Artist Suzanne Kite Debuts New Show in Partnership with the Vera List Center for Art and PoliticsRethinking Residencies SymposiumSeminar 9: Bridge: Protocols of Jazz and ModernismHél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road): A PerformanceKite: Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road)Song of CurvesKite: Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road)Supporting artists, strengthening communitiesLegacy Russell: On FootnotesRESPONSE ABILITY* A Manifesto on EcocideSeminar 8: Work in the Cultural Economy We Want: CooperativesArtsLink Assembly 2021: Future FellowsVLC Forum 2021 Day Five: Escuela de OficiosVLC Forum 2021 Day Four: ConflictoriumVLC Forum 2021 Day Three: Underground ResistanceVLC Forum 2021 Day Two: Nepal Picture LibraryVLC Forum 2021 Day One: Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers OrganizationVera List Center Forum 2021: As for ProtocolsEmeka Okereke: Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers OrganizationJorge González: Escuela de OficiosNayanTara Gurung Kakshapati: Nepal Picture LibraryUnderground Resistance: Submerge ProjectVera List Center Forum 2021: As for ProtocolsOwed to a Certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the ConflictoriumSeminar 7: Drones and the Bird’s-Eye View¡LOS QUE MUEREN POR LA VIDA, NO PUEDEN LLAMARSE MUERTOS! THOSE WHO DIE FOR LIFE, ARE NOT DEAD!Announcing Fall 2021 ProgramsAs for Protocols—To Hold Things TogetherHél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road) – A Dialogue About Making Art in a Good WayNew School News: The Vera List Center “As for Protocols” Seminar Series Explores Questions of Algorithms, Equitable Networks, Scientific Research, and MoreNew School News: The Vera List Center “As for Protocols” Seminar Series Explores Questions of Algorithms, Equitable Networks, Scientific Research, and MoreNO WORK, NO SHOP: Socio-Environmental Imagination and Pedagogies of ActionSeminar 6: Lab Work – Art of the ExperimentStrategies for Survival: Black Feminist ManifestosSeminar 5: Protocols of Revolutionary Feminisms to Re/make the WorldNew School News: The Vera List Center Expands Support for Indigenous Artists with the Inaugural Borderlands FellowshipNew School News: The Vera List Center Expands Support for Indigenous Artists with the Inaugural Borderlands FellowshipCommunication After Refusal: The Turn to Love and PolyvocalityClimate Relations: Indigeneity in Activism, Art and Digital MediaSeminar 4: Reimagining Protocols: Reclaiming, Challenging, and Queering SurveillancePhiladelphia Inquirer: Are you thinking about time right now? For ‘Black Futures’ contributor Rasheedah Phillips, it’s a lifelong pursuit

2020

Vice: Inside India’s ‘Museum of Conflict’ That Just Won a Major International AwardForces of Art: Perspectives from a Changing WorldSeminar 3: Bring Forth the Body: Biopower, Protocol, and PlaguesCarolina A. Miranda: Going LocalThe Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the InternetL.A. Times: Column – Are art museums still racist? The COVID resetSeminar 2: Protocols for Community and Equitable Networks [as applied to education]Artforum: Avni Sethi Wins Vera List Center’s Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice2020-2022 Prize Recipient: Avni SethiWhat Protocols Are Needed Now? & Announcement of 2020-2022 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice2020-2022 Prize Recipient: Avni SethiThe Computable and the Uncomputable Keynote Lecture by Alexander R. GallowayTowards a Temporal Rezoning: Unmapping the Time Zones. A Talk by VLC Fellow Rasheedah PhillipsOn Protocol: VLC Fellow Maria Hupfield in Conversation with Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonFrom Errorism to NEO-EXTRA-ACTIVISM: VLC Fellow Etcétera and Jennifer Ponce de LeónGathering: VLC Fellow Adelita Husni Bey in Dialogue with Robert SemberBorderlands: VLC Fellow Carolina Caycedo in Conversation with Natalie DiazOn Race, Representation, and White Lies: A Tribute to Maurice BergerPalais de Mari: A Tribute to Maurice Berger, Part IIIOn Race, Representation, and White Lies: A Tribute to Maurice Berger, Part IIThe Berger Object: A Tribute to Maurice Berger, Part IVera List Center Forum 2020: As for ProtocolsVera List Center Fellows 2020–2022World Records Volume 4 Launch: In the Presence of OthersSeminar 1: Protocols as Language and CommunicationAs for Protocols Seminar SeriesVLC Welcomes Five New Advisory Board Members2020-2022 Borderlands FellowshipART • WORK • PLACE: Emergency Session IIISolidarity with Racial Justice MovementsTraining for the Not-Yet: Protocols in the MakingART • WORK • PLACE: Emergency Session IIArt•Work•Place: Creating an Equitable Art WorldART • WORK • PLACE: Emergency Session IArt for the Now: Help Support Our CommunitiesJesus Benavente, I’m Not Dancing, I’m Struggling to Survive: Shelter in PlaceArt and the Specter of IdeologyDean Erdmann. And, Apollo: A LaboratoryBOMB: Digesting Place: Dean Erdmann Interviewed by Amanda ParmerBOMB: Digesting Place: Dean Erdmann Interviewed by Amanda ParmerQueer Archives: Between the Individual and the InstitutionalDean Erdmann. And, Apollo: A Laboratory2020–2022 VLC Fellowship Open Call

2019

Being Together Precedes BeingCourtney J. Martin: In the Context of CriticismGlobal Voices: Conversations with the Jane Lombard FellowsFESTAC ’77, a concert by Craig HarrisTiffany Chung: The Vietnam Exodus ProjectTiffany ChungVera List Center Forum 2019: If Art Is PoliticsDar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and ResearchJasmeen Patheja: Blank NoiseLiz Johnson Artur: Black Balloon ArchiveNaine Terena De Jesus: OráculoPan African Space Station: Wake Up Your MindVera List Center Forum 2019: If Art is PoliticsPan African Space StationMoving Movements: Women in PhilanthropyArt Papers: Art Isn’t Neutral, A Conversation With Carin Kuoni and Laura RaicovichART PAPERS: Art Isn’t Neutral, A Conversation With Carin Kuoni and Laura RaicovichDialogues on a Future Communication. Entanglement #2: ResilienceFreedom of Speech: A Curriculum for Studies Into DarknessParsons Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Dean ErdmannART, An Index to (see also POLITICS): 25 Years of Vera List Center FellowshipsNew School News: Feminist Manifestos Continue to Challenge the Status Quo

2018

Brittle Paper: Chimurenga Collective Awarded Vera List Center’s 2018-20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice2018–2020 Prize Recipient: ChimurengaHyperallergic: How the Arts Can Help Immigrant Communities Through Sanctuary

2017

Hyperallergic: The Growing Necessity for the Vera List Center for Art and PoliticsA Botany of ColonizationForensic ArchitectureGulf LaborIsumaTV: Zacharias KunukMADEYOULOOKSites as Citations of New York’s Colonial Past in BallastThe House of Natural FiberThe Importance of Words and ActionTranscending Movements: Weeds as Queering Species BoundariesVera List Center Prize for Art and Politics 2016–2018 Conference CompanionMaria Thereza Alves, Seeds of Change: New York—A Botany of ColonizationNew York Times: A Seed Artist Germinates HistoryVera List Center Marks 25 Years of International ImpactMondoweiss: On boycotts, Palestine, and resistance – a review of ‘Assuming Boycott’Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural ProductionArt Collection Writing Award Winners, 2016–2017Indigenous New York, Critically SpeakingNobutaka Aozaki: Select Works from 2012-PresentNo title (Square format book with a black and white print of an illustrated flower on it)VLC Statement On Immigration Executive Order

2016

Unplay: Action, Affect, AttentionProjects A-EArt Collection Writing Award Winners, 2015–2016Indigenous New YorkArt and Social Justice Working Group

2015

Abounaddara. The Right to the ImageA Right To The Image For All: Concept Paper for a Coming RevolutionAbounaddara: The Right to the ImageAbounaddara. The Right to the ImageNew York Times: Syrian Film Collective Offers View of Life Behind a ConflictEntry Points: The Vera List Center Field Guide on Art and Social Justice, No. 1Speculation, NowMendi + Keith Obadike: Blues Speaker [for James Baldwin]

2014

Post-SpeculationNew York Times: Trying to Bring Baldwin’s Complex Voice Back to the Classroom

2013

Theaster Gates: A Way of WorkingWBYA 2.0, Who Builds Your Architecture? Part 2: Sustainability and Sustaining Human Life

2012

Between Art and Architecture: Carol BoveNew York Times: New School Prize Goes to Theaster Gates2012-2014 Prize Recipient Theaster Gates and Dorchester ProjectsJamie Kruse: Thingness of Energy

2010

Art21: 5 Questions with Carin Kuoni of the Vera List Center for Art and PoliticsSchool of Echoes. Vogue’ology: Protocol CompendiumVogue’ologyThe Cardew Object: Exhibition in the Skybridge Art & Sound Space

2009

By Any Name: A Tiny Archive of Critical Viewpoints on The New SchoolWith BustleOURS: Democracy in the Age of Branding

2008

OURS: Democracy in the Age of BrandingAgency: A Thematic & Partial Tour of The New School Art CollectionConsidering ForgivenessSubjective Histories of Sculpture II: Sanford Biggers

2007

Public Domain

2006

The Borough Arts Bash: Celebrating Manhattan’s Creative Communities

2005

“I Beg Your Pardon.” or the Reestablishing of Cordial Relations

2004

Identify! or Studies on the Political Subject

2002

Inside the Culture of Resistance: Reg E. Gaines Interviews Savion GloverPatrons of Progress: The New School University Art CollectionInside the Culture of Resistance: Danny HochThe Guggenheim, Corporate Populism, and the Future of the Corporate Museum

2001

Havana. Patrimony, Patience, and Progress: Architecture, Urban Planning, and Historic Preservation in Havana, Cuba

Secret Gardens: Rahel Aima on Maria Thereza Alves’s Seeds of ChangeArt Collection Writing Award Winners, 2004–2005Art Collection Writing Award Winners, 2005–2006Art Collection Writing Award Winners, 2006–2007Art Collection Writing Award Winners, 2007–2008Art Collection Writing Award Winners, 2009–2010Art Collection Writing Award Winners, 2010–2011Art Collection Writing Award Winners, 2011–2012Art Collection Writing Award Winners, 2012–2013Art Collection Writing Award Winners, 2014–2015Delivery Express: No Justicia, No Pizza!In solidarity with PalestineThe Belly of the World: A Note on Black Women’s LaborsOURS: Democracy in the Age of Branding | Online Works2020-2022 Vera List Center FellowsAccessibilityCOVID-19 Resource Toolkit for Artists and our Extended CommunitiesVLC Welcomes Five New Advisory Board Members; Names Two New Vice Chairs

1999

Are we ready for a Cabinet-Level Position for Culture?

1997

French Children of the Holocaust: A Memorial Exhibition