Word and image driven, the VLC public programs cross disciplines, institutions and geographies and bring together artists, writers, and academics for lectures, panel discussions, roundtables, and the occasional performance. Switchboard documents these programs in various ways. Visit our New School site for institutional information.
Museum Futures: Distributed
66 Fifth Avenue, between 12th and 13th Streets
In collaboration with Performa09, the Vera List Center and Parsons The New School for Design present the American premiere of Museum Futures: Distributed, Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska’s new film on the power of cultural institutions. Set in 2058, the film offers a provocative vision of a hyper-globalized art world featuring the future director of the future Moderna Museet in…
Posted on October 26, 2009
Bookforum at The New School: Getting to Work – Labor Issues in the 21st Century
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
New York City
The economic crisis has raised fundamental questions about how income is generated and what constitutes work that is both dignified and secure. Is there such a thing as a “postindustrial economy” and what does that mean for working Americans? Can we prosper without a vital manufacturing base? Is the global free market a fatally compromised myth, and if so, what…
Posted on September 20, 2009
The Internet as Playground and Factory: A Conference on Digital Labor
For the complete conference schedule and registration
This conference, organized by Lang faculty member Trebor Scholz and, among others, supported by the Vera List Center, confronts the urgent need to interrogate the concepts of labor and value in the digital economy and seeks to inspire proposals for action. There are currently few adequate definitions of labor that fit the complex, hybrid realities…
Posted on September 20, 2009
Roberta Smith: “Criticism: A Life Sentence”
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York City
Reservations strongly recommended*
The AICA/USA Distinguished Critic Lecture at The New School
In an insightful, probing and personal analysis, Roberta Smith delivers this year’s AICA/USA Distinguished Critic Lecture at The New School. Under the title “Criticism: A Life Sentence,” Smith presents her view of the craft, process and usage of art criticism, and the rising challenges of crisis-management and relevance-maintenance.
Roberta Smith is the acclaimed…
Posted on September 20, 2009
