Art
Art as an Exercise in Moving Through Grief
What’s clear in These Conditions is artist Adelita Husni Bey’s ambition to push art to be more than an exercise in spectatorship.
Vera List Center for Art and Politics
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How the Invisible Power of Protocol Regulates the Day-to-day
This year’s Vera List Center Forum will turn attention to the systems, structures, and language that undergird every aspect of our lives.
Announcement
Vera List Center Forum Launches New Focus Theme, “As for Protocols”
VLC Forum 2020 explores the socio-technical aspect of protocols as articulated in the work of Vera List Center Fellows, artists, activists, and thinkers.
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Why Museums Can’t Always Fall Back on Endowments
The COVID-19 pandemic may be an opportunity to look transparently at museum endowments and their limitations, and consider the need for alternative sources of support in the months to come.
Announcement
Vera Lists Center’s 2019 Forum Considers "If Art Is Politics"
At the forum, the collective Chimurenga will install its Pan African Space Station for a three-day broadcast that explores the participation of African American artists, activists, and intellectuals in FESTAC ’77.
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A Famous Anti-Slavery Speech Finds New Life in Brooklyn
“A Time for Seditious Speech” aims to show that speech can serve as a call to direct action, sometimes even violence.
Announcement
Vera List Center’s 2018 Forum Asks “If Art Is Politics”
The center's inaugural forum will take place October 4-5 at the New School Tishman Auditorium.
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How the Arts Can Help Immigrant Communities Through Sanctuary
Tom Finkelpearl, Jeanne van Heeswijk, and Laura Raicovich discussed cultural institutions' responsibilities to the most vulnerable members of their communities during a conversation at the New School.
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How Artists and Cultural Institutions Can Support the Sanctuary Movement
Laura Raicovich, Tom Finkelpearl, and Jeanne van Heeswijk will discuss what has been done and what more needs to happen to protect immigrants in legally precarious situations.
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The Growing Necessity for the Vera List Center for Art and Politics
Now in its 25th year, the New School-affiliated institution is supporting increasingly essential and timely art.
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How the Invasive Plants of New York Represent the City’s Colonial Past
Plants from Europe, Asia, and Africa recall New York's history of migration in Maria Thereza Alves, Seeds of Change: New York — A Botany of Colonization at the New School.
Announcement
Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics Conference 2016–2018
The conference will survey the social justice practice of Maria Thereza Alves, Forensic Architecture, Gulf Labor, House of Natural Fibers (HONF), Isuma TV, and MadeYouLook.