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The center organizes various programs that respond to some of the pressing social and political issues of our time as they are articulated by the academic community and visual and performing artists. It enhances the New School's education mission by bringing together scholars and students, the people of New York, and national and international audiences in an exploration of new possibilities for civic engagement.
On its twentieth anniversary, the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School presents "From 'Sustaining Democracy' to the State of the Civic," a daylong series of panels exploring the unique role art plays[...]
May 1, 2013
The Vera List Center for Art and Politics is pleased to invite applications for the 2013–2015 Vera List Center Fellowships. Two fellowships will be awarded, each spanning eight months and linked to the Vera List Center[...]
March 5, 2013
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new website, www.veralistcenter.org, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. Designed by Project Projects, it features ex[...]
February 27, 2013
Theaster Gates has been named the inaugural winner of the Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics. The biennial prize honors an artist who has taken risks to advance social justice. It is awarded on the basis of a pa[...]
November 16, 2012
"Sometime in the early 1950s Madison Avenue's hucksters realized that they could sell political candidates like any other product, a throat lozenge or facial tissue." –Steve Seid, Fifty Years of Campaign Spots (Berkel[...]
October 23, 2012
Bringing together leading theorists of contemporary art and culture, curators and artists, How Can Art Affect Political Change? addresses the complex relationship between creative practice and political activism. The wav[...]
September 24, 2012
"Our things in our hands must be equals, comrades, and not these black and mournful slaves…" –Aleksandr Rodchenko, letter to Varvara Stepanova, 1925 The Soviet avant-garde occupies a prominent place in the history [...]
August 29, 2012
It demonstrates what can happen when talented architects are allowed to practice their craft uninhibited by creative restrictions (or, to be fair, by the high labor costs of most developed societies)." —Nicolai Ouro[...]
April 23, 2012
Join The New School's stellar faculty for another edition of "A New School Moment" as they unravel some of the complexities of a particularly pressing political, cultural or social issue. On March 5, the focus is ener[...]
February 28, 2012
What is radical media? What has it been in the past? What can it be in the future? What is media's relationship to social justice and movement building? Paper Tiger Television, Vera List Center for Art and Politics,[...]
January 31, 2012
