Our Archive collects nearly 500 public events with artists, scholars, historians, and other thinkers and makers who consider wide-ranging topics of social relevance.

2023

In Common: Romare Bearden and New Approaches to Art, Race & EconomyIn Common: Romare Bearden and New Approaches to Art, Race & EconomyIn Common: New Approaches with Romare BeardenVLC Forum 2023: Blackness Is…: Global Black and Indigenous SolidaritiesNew School New Books: A Reading SeriesSeminar 5: Lupus as an Operating SystemArt Collection Writing Award, 2022–2023

2022

Seminar 1: Ashes to Artifact: Cultural Death, Repair, and Restitution of the Benin BronzesBlack Quantum Futurism: Time Zone ProtocolsBlack Quantum Futurism: Time Zone Protocols

2021

Legacy Russell: On FootnotesStrategies for Survival: Black Feminist ManifestosCommunication After Refusal: The Turn to Love and PolyvocalityPhiladelphia Inquirer: Are you thinking about time right now? For ‘Black Futures’ contributor Rasheedah Phillips, it’s a lifelong pursuit

2020

L.A. Times: Column – Are art museums still racist? The COVID resetWhat Protocols Are Needed Now? & Announcement of 2020-2022 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social JusticeTowards a Temporal Rezoning: Unmapping the Time Zones. A Talk by VLC Fellow Rasheedah PhillipsOn Race, Representation, and White Lies: A Tribute to Maurice Berger, Part IIThe Berger Object: A Tribute to Maurice Berger, Part ISeminar 1: Protocols as Language and CommunicationART • WORK • PLACE: Emergency Session IIIQueer Archives: Between the Individual and the Institutional

2019

FESTAC ’77, a concert by Craig HarrisPan African Space Station: Wake Up Your MindART, An Index to (see also POLITICS): 25 Years of Vera List Center Fellowships

2018

Brittle Paper: Chimurenga Collective Awarded Vera List Center’s 2018-20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice

2015

Mendi + Keith Obadike: Blues Speaker [for James Baldwin]

2014

Post-SpeculationNew York Times: Trying to Bring Baldwin’s Complex Voice Back to the Classroom

2013

Theaster Gates: A Way of Working

2012

New York Times: New School Prize Goes to Theaster Gates

2010

School of Echoes. Vogue’ology: Protocol CompendiumVogue’ology

The Belly of the World: A Note on Black Women’s Labors