Skip to Content Our Archive collects nearly 500 public events with artists, scholars, historians, and other thinkers and makers who consider wide-ranging topics of social relevance. Abolition Accessibility Activism Ancestral Intelligence Archive Art Criticism Artificial Intelligence Body Politic Borderlands Boycott Capitalism Carcerality Censorship Climate Collaboration View All Chronological / Alphabetical 2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2002 2001 1999 1997 2025 RIFTING (early notes) what is your form? Seminar 3: Cosmic Intelligence: Water. Moves. Us. ArtReview: Is the Artworld Intelligent? Storefront for Art and Architecture Book Bash 2025 Kellie Jones: Body / Knowledge Turning Tables 2 at Critical Distance Studies into Darkness: A Reading Marathon for Freedom of Speech The New York Times: Told to Avoid D.E.I., Arts Groups Are Declining Grants Instead Defending Solidarity at ArtsLink Assembly 2025 Children’s Ways of Knowing Open Call: Vera List New School Art Collection Writing Awards 2026 Seminar 2: Of Matter Artforum: Rosana Paulino Awarded Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice 2025–2027 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice Recipient: Rosana Paulino Ocula Magazine: Rosana Paulino Wins $25K Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice VLC Forum 2025: Jane Lombard Prize Announcement and Reception VLC Forum 2025: Conversations with the 2025–2027 VLC Fellows and Special Guests VLC Forum 2025: (question–repeat–failure–record) VLC Forum 2025: Community Dinner: Guts and Brains VLC Forum 2025: Matteo Pasquinelli. AI and Madness: On the Disalienation of the General Intellect Vera List Center Forum 2025: Matter of Intelligence Dispatches of Knowledge: VLC Fellows and Curators in Conversation Vera List Center Forum 2025: Matter of Intelligence The New York Times: Facing Funding Cuts and Censorship Threats, Museums Band Together Art Movements: Marina Abramović, Rosana Paulino, AI Art Museum As for Protocols x Convivialities Book Launch Matter of Intelligence Seminar Series Seminar 1: Paying Mind: On the Uses and Abuses of the Intellectual CNN: ‘A national emergency’: As Trump goes after the arts, many museums remain silent Remembering Agnes Gund (1938–2025) Matter of Intelligence Are.na Channel Announcing Fall 2025 Programs Artnet News: Artists and Organizations Rally Against Censorship in Open Letter ArtReview: Over 150 US Cultural Institutions Speak Out Against State Censorship Cultural Freedom Demands Collective Courage: A Nation-Wide Statement of Values and Principles for the Field Of Arts And Culture New York Times: As Trump Targets the Smithsonian, Museums Across the US Feel a Chill Momus The Podcast: Post/doc with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics 2025–2027 VLC Fellows New York Times: “An Incomplete* Listing of Libraries, Reading Rooms, and Archives” at Frieze New York Earth and Cosmos: Panel Conversation and Video Screening with Beatriz Cortez and rafa esparza Post/doc Spring 2025 Celebration and Launch with Momus Havensong (after and for heidi andrea restrepo rhodes and Diana SeoHyung) 가는 길: Decision to Leave / On Leaving / Leaving Artnet News: ‘Nobody’s Coming to Save Us’: How U.S. Museums Are Battling for Their Future Under Trump Other Islands Book Fair 2025 at Pratt Institute New School News: The Vera List Center for Art and Politics Hosts an Expanded New School New Books Lorraine O’Grady (1934 – 2024): A Celebration of Life As for Protocols Book Launch New School New Books 2025 An Incomplete* Listing of NYC Libraries, Reading Rooms, and Archives / New School New Books 2025 As for Protocols A Frown Gone Mad Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time e-flux Notes: The Voice of the Wet Concrete: A Conversation with Carmen Amengual and Soyoung Yoon Carmen Amengual: A Non-Coincidental Mirror. Book Launch and Exhibition Closing with Yasmina Price an everyday archive of time stolen back Rehearsing Views: Paper Cameras Study Pack Brooklyn Rail: Carmen Amengual’s A Non-Coincidental Mirror Carmen Amengual’s A Non-Coincidental Mirror: Screening and Discussion 2023 Seminar 9: Of Bodies and Sound 야생의 파도와 함께 with tides of the wild Valerie Cassel Oliver. Black Ontology: The Subversive Beauty of Soul Storefront for Art and Architecture Book Bash 2023 In Common: Romare Bearden and New Approaches to Art, Race & Economy Press Play 2023 at Pioneer Works Seminar 8: “Hader Halal” (With Regard to Presence) In Common: Romare Bearden and New Approaches to Art, Race & Economy In Common: New Approaches with Romare Bearden Breaking Protocol New School Free Press: How the Vera List Center brings art from all over the world to The New School’s galleries Beatriz Cortez: Ilopango, the Volcano that Left Times Union: The Volcano that Journeyed up the Hudson River In Solidarity with Victims of Violence: A Resource Guide and Archive VLC Forum 2023: Igniting Resistance: A Conversation with Colectivo Cherani VLC Forum 2023: farid rakun: On space, or putting the ruang in ruangrupa VLC Forum 2023: On Learning Together VLC Forum 2023: Community Dinner and Party VLC Forum 2023: Blackness Is…: Global Black and Indigenous Solidarities VLC Forum 2023: Prize Ceremony and Conversation proppaNOW with Wanda Nanibush VLC Forum 2023: Impossible Structures with Khalil Rabah VLC Forum 2023: Unchrono/logical Timeline Activation Chapter 2.2 New York Vera List Center Forum 2023: Correction* Another Roadmap Africa Cluster: Another Roadmap School Colectivo Cherani: Cherán Cultural Center Khalil Rabah: The Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind KUNCI Study Forum & Collective: School of Improper Education On Country proppaNOW: OCCURRENT AFFAIR Vera List Center Forum 2023: Correction* proppaNOW: There Goes the Neighbourhood! Breaking Protocol Book Launch Maria Hupfield’s Breaking Protocol centers on performance practices grounded in indigenous knowledge and sovereignty Beatriz Cortez: Voids, Portals, and Moving Land Seminar 7: Bring into Order: School(ing) as a War of Correction MISS READ Book Fair 2023 “My language has disappeared.” A Conversation on Studies into Darkness Announcing Fall 2023 Programs Arts of the Working Class: VLC Correction* Seminar on Indigenous Cultural Revitalization featured in AWC Issue 27: Kinships New School News: The Vera List Center for Art and Politics Hosts Reading Room Featuring Faculty Books Demon of the heart Paradoxical Intelligence Libraries in Practice: Tending Toward Liberation Topical Cream: Blessings and Transmutations: An Interview with Fox Maxy Seminar 6: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization: Rematriation and Preservation Studies into Darkness included in AUPresses 2023 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show Maria Thereza Alves: Seeds of Change Libraries as Correctives: C& Center of Unfinished Business, Keleketla! Library, and Sister Library with Asia Art Archive New School New Books: A Reading Series Seminar 5: Lupus as an Operating System BOMB: Adelita Husni Bey by Amal Khalaf 2022–2023 Vera List New School Art Collection Writing Awards C& Center of Unfinished Business C& Center of Unfinished Business Ariella Aïsha Azoulay: the world like a jewel in the hand Other Islands Book Fair 2023 at Pratt Institute Conflicting Relations New School News: Matti Aikio, Sámi Fellow at the Vera List Center, Explores Legacies of Settler Colonialism Seminar 4: Becoming One: The University Between Labor Struggles and Communities of Care Seminar 3: Correcting Mistaken Ideas: Revisiting the People’s Program at Lincoln Hospital with Walter Bosque Public Seminar: A Botany of Decolonization—An excerpt from Maria Thereza Alves: Seeds of Change Cybercultures and Cyberfeminisms Wild plants, queer landscapes Announcing Spring 2023 Programs New book by Maria Thereza Alves reveals the entangled histories of plants and displaced people Remembering Ronald Feldman, 1938–2022 | Founding Member, Vera List Center Advisory Committee 2022 And Let Us Say on asterisks (*for the stars) Post/doc Siddhartha Mitter: Moving the Center New Appointments and Staff Promotions at the VLC The Vera List Center for Art and Politics stands in solidarity with part-time faculty and student workers at The New School New School News: The Vera List Center for Art and Politics Celebrates 30 Years with a Forum, New Fellows, and More Seminar 2: Virus Becoming Artforum: Aboriginal Collective proppaNOW Wins Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice Public Seminar: Can Art Reimagine Freedom of Speech? A Conversation on Studies into Darkness VLC Forum 2022: A Time for Correction*, Introducing the 2022–2024 VLC Fellows VLC Forum 2022: FORCE! an opera in three acts with Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty 2022–2024 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice Recipient: proppaNOW Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Raqs Media Collective. Emendations: 30 Years of Art and Politics The Guardian: Brisbane-based Indigenous Art Collective proppaNOW Wins Prestigious Global Prize VLC 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 30 Breaking Protocol: A Conversation with Maria Hupfield Studies into Darkness: Editors and Artists in Conversation Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech Seminar 1: Ashes to Artifact: Cultural Death, Repair, and Restitution of the Benin Bronzes Correction* Seminar Series We’re Hiring! Borderlands Curatorial Fellowship Announcing Fall 2022 Programs 2022–2024 Vera List Center Fellows Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech Book Launch MARCH: On Necessary Work Etcétera: NEO-EXTRA-ACTIVISM–Protocols for Buen Vivir NEO-EXTRA-ACTIVISM–Protocols for Buen Vivir Seminar 12: Breaking Protocols: Desire Lines La Siembra Maria Hupfield: Super Massive Thunder Boom Ultimate Collection Amherst College Press and Vera List Center Announce New Publishing Partnership Prime Meridian Unconference Visiting Artist Lecture: Rasheedah Phillips/Black Quantum Futurism New York Times: Art We Saw This Spring—featuring Adelita Husni Bey Seminar 11: Forces of Art: Protocols of Evaluation Black Quantum Futurism: Time Zone Protocols Black Quantum Futurism: Time Zone Protocols On Conditions and Conditionality: Ecological Injustices and the Biopolitics of Resistance These Conditions: Family Saturdays at Brooklyn Army Terminal The Architect’s Newspaper: Adelita Husni Bey examines pandemics past, present, and future at the Brooklyn Army Terminal Hyperallergic: Art as an Exercise in Moving Through Grief On Necessary Work Seminar 10: School of Tomorrow: From the Open Plan to the Tele-classroom Teach-In on Ukraine for Artists, Activists, and Arts Workers These Conditions: Duvet A Reading Inside These Conditions Remote Control: Surveying Drones and Culture Today Adelita Husni Bey: These Conditions Adelita Husni Bey: These Conditions Announcing Spring 2022 Programs Open Call: 2022–2024 Vera List Center Fellowships The 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 Politics Rethinking Residencies Symposium Seminar 9: Bridge: Protocols of Jazz and Modernism Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road): A Performance Kite: Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road) Song of Curves Kite: Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road) Supporting artists, strengthening communities Legacy Russell: On Footnotes RESPONSE ABILITY* A Manifesto on Ecocide Seminar 8: Work in the Cultural Economy We Want: Cooperatives ArtsLink Assembly 2021: Future Fellows VLC Forum 2021 Day Five: Escuela de Oficios VLC Forum 2021 Day Four: Conflictorium VLC Forum 2021 Day Three: Underground Resistance VLC Forum 2021 Day Two: Nepal Picture Library VLC Forum 2021 Day One: Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers Organization Vera List Center Forum 2021: As for Protocols Emeka Okereke: Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers Organization Jorge González: Escuela de Oficios NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati: Nepal Picture Library Underground Resistance: Submerge Project Vera List Center Forum 2021: As for Protocols Owed to a Certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium Seminar 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 Programs As for Protocols—To Hold Things Together Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road) – A Dialogue About Making Art in a Good Way New School News: The Vera List Center “As for Protocols” Seminar Series Explores Questions of Algorithms, Equitable Networks, Scientific Research, and More New School News: The Vera List Center “As for Protocols” Seminar Series Explores Questions of Algorithms, Equitable Networks, Scientific Research, and More NO WORK, NO SHOP: Socio-Environmental Imagination and Pedagogies of Action Seminar 6: Lab Work – Art of the Experiment Seminar 5: Protocols of Revolutionary Feminisms to Re/make the World New School News: The Vera List Center Expands Support for Indigenous Artists with the Inaugural Borderlands Fellowship New School News: The Vera List Center Expands Support for Indigenous Artists with the Inaugural Borderlands Fellowship Communication After Refusal: The Turn to Love and Polyvocality Climate Relations: Indigeneity in Activism, Art and Digital Media Seminar 4: Reimagining Protocols: Reclaiming, Challenging, and Queering Surveillance Philadelphia Inquirer: Are you thinking about time right now? For ‘Black Futures’ contributor Rasheedah Phillips, it’s a lifelong pursuit