Our Publications respond to and nurture a thriving field of politically engaged art practices throughout the world.

Book, e-book

As for Protocols (pre-order available)

Catalogue, VLC Forum

Vera List Center Forum 2024: Correct History*

Catalogue

In Common: Romare Bearden and New Approaches to Art, Race & Economy

Book

Breaking Protocol

Catalogue, VLC Forum

Vera List Center Forum 2023: Correction*

Red text on a white background: C& Center of Unfinished Business at The New School Vera List Center for Art and Politics Contemporary And (C&) Social Justic Hub, University Center, The New School 63 5th Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10003 April 1–May 26, 2023 The Vera List Center for Art and Politics and multimedia platform Contemporary And (C&) present the C& Center of Unfinished Business at The New School, a roving reading room and exhibition that speaks to the persistence and presence of colonialism in contemporary life. Conceived by Contemporary And’s Julia Grosse, Yvette Mutumba, and Mearg Negusse, the project offers a selection of key, and, at times, unexpected texts that spark discourse on the enduring structures that continuously undergird colonial legacies in modern society. “Unfinished,” here, subtly echoes the “post” in postcolonial—hinting at an incomplete reckoning with colonialism and its evident and insidious aftermaths. The Vera List Center iteration of the exhibition features a curated selection of books, including titles from The New School faculty, alumni, and the VLC Fellows Library. Inaugurated during the 2022 VLC Forum and 30th anniversary celebration, the VLC Fellows Library is a collection of publications by each of the forty-four fellows the Vera List Center has hosted over its thirty-year history, celebrating and making available their research and work. Both the installation and accompanying broadsheet publication are designed by New School students. As with previous iterations, the reading room upends traditional forms of display in both content and form. Books meander through angular shelves next to, above, and across from each other in challenging, experimental, unconventional ways to mirror the tension and discomfort historically embedded in discussions on colonization. To this end, the C& Center of Unfinished Business occupies The New School’s Social Justice Hub, an interstitial space designed and designated for conversations on equity and solidarity across communities. The reading room plays host to public programs that inscribe the VLC’s 2022–2024 Focus Theme Correction* into colonial legacies and postcolonial realities. Conversations with local and international libraries as well as a public reading series explore libraries as sites of intervention, liberation, and repair.

Broadsheet, Catalogue

C& Center of Unfinished Business

Maria Thereza Alves: Seeds of Change. Edited by Carin Kuoni and Wilma Lukatch. Published by Amherst College Press and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, 2023. Designed by Common Name. 216 pages. Photograph by Re'al Christian, courtesy the Vera List Center. Front cover: image from Seeds of Change: Liverpool, 2004, wraps around front and back cover. Dark green text on a light brown background reads: Maria Thereza Alves Seeds of Change Edited by Carin Kuoni and Wilma Lukatsch

Book, e-book

Maria Thereza Alves: Seeds of Change

Catalogue, VLC Forum

Vera List Center Forum 2022: Correction*

A book with a black cover placed on a light gray background; white text on the cover reads "Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech, edited by Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich" in a serif font. Red, blue, and green edge printing; green and blue edges visible.

Book, e-book

Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech

Broadsheet, Catalogue

Etcétera: NEO-EXTRA-ACTIVISM–Protocols for Buen Vivir

Catalogue

Black Quantum Futurism: Time Zone Protocols

Catalogue

Adelita Husni Bey: These Conditions

Catalogue

Kite: Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road)

Catalogue, VLC Forum

Vera List Center Forum 2021: As for Protocols

Guide

Vera List Center Fellows 2020–2022

Catalogue

Dean Erdmann. And, Apollo: A Laboratory

VLC 2019 Forum Poster

Catalogue, VLC Forum

Vera List Center Forum 2019: If Art is Politics

Book

ART, An Index to (see also POLITICS): 25 Years of Vera List Center Fellowships

Catalogue, VLC Forum

Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics 2016–2018 Conference Companion

Book, e-book

Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production

Catalogue

Indigenous New York, Critically Speaking

Artist Book

No title (Book with reflective vinyl fabric cover, black and white printed content)

Victoria Sobel and Casey Gollan

Artist Book

No title (Square format book with a black and white print of an illustrated flower on it)

Victoria Sobel and Casey Gollan

Catalogue, Guide

Abounaddara: The Right to the Image

Book

Entry Points: The Vera List Center Field Guide on Art and Social Justice, No. 1

Book

Speculation, Now

Broadsheet

Delivery Express: No Justicia, No Pizza!

Catalogue

School of Echoes. Vogue’ology: Protocol Compendium

Ultra-red

Guide

By Any Name: A Tiny Archive of Critical Viewpoints on The New School

Essay

With Bustle

Richard Martin

Book

Considering Forgiveness

Broadsheet, Catalogue

OURS: Democracy in the Age of Branding

Catalogue

Agency: A Thematic & Partial Tour of The New School Art Collection

Guide

Public Domain

Guide

Patrons of Progress: The New School University Art Collection

Essay

The Guggenheim, Corporate Populism, and the Future of the Corporate Museum

Michael Brenson

Guide

Havana. Patrimony, Patience, and Progress: Architecture, Urban Planning, and Historic Preservation in Havana, Cuba

Guide

Are we ready for a Cabinet-Level Position for Culture?