The Vera List Center for Art and Politics is a research center and a public forum for art, culture, and politics.
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 2025–2027 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice Recipient: Rosana Paulino
 
 Oct 20, 2025
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 Remembering Agnes Gund (1938–2025)
 
 Sep 25, 2025
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 Announcing Fall 2025 Programs
 
 Sep 8, 2025
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 Cultural Freedom Demands Collective Courage: A Nation-Wide Statement of Values and Principles for the Field Of Arts And Culture
 
 Aug 25, 2025
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 2025–2027 VLC Fellows
 
 May 29, 2025
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 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
 
 Feb 5, 2024
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 Announcing Spring 2024 Programs
 
 Jan 29, 2024
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 Maria Hupfield’s Breaking Protocol centers on performance practices grounded in indigenous knowledge and sovereignty
 
 Oct 6, 2023
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 Announcing Fall 2023 Programs
 
 Aug 28, 2023
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 Studies into Darkness included in AUPresses 2023 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show
 
 Apr 27, 2023
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 New book by Maria Thereza Alves reveals the entangled histories of plants  and displaced people
 
 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
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 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
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 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
 
 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
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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: Frieze New York Is Smaller but Still Packs a Global Punch
 
 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
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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