http://www.veralistcenter.org/
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.
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
New Yorker critic Peter Schjeldahl has been called "America's most important living art critic," and "the unacknowledged dean of a bastard profession." But is it? Schjeldahl takes on the challenge in a lecture/speech/m[...]
November 9, 2011
While legal and cultural scholars have labeled the third part of the 20th century–with its particular attention to testimony–as the "era of the witness," the emergence of forensics in legal forums and popular enterta[...]
October 31, 2011
How do objects sometimes act as vibrant things, with an effectivity of their own, a degree of independence from the words, images, and feelings they provoke in humans? Political theorist Jane Bennett delivers the inau[...]
September 8, 2011
Vera List Center Fellowships The Vera List Center Fellowships honor individuals whose work advances the discourse on art and politics. The appointments provide the opportunity to further develop such work drawing fr[...]
June 14, 2011
From South Africa, via London, comes Warhorse, the extraordinarily successful theater and puppetry collaboration between Cape Town’s Handspring Puppet Company and the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain. War[...]
April 4, 2011
In this lecture, Galison addresses speculation as it pertains to inaccessible sites, in particular "nuclear wastelands" and "pure wilderness." As they are usually understood, these designations are opposites; when they c[...]
October 18, 2010
On the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Congressional mandate that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) consider “general standards of decency and respect” in awarding grants, the Vera List Center for Art and Politi[...]
September 9, 2010
