The Vera List Center & the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry are pleased to present the NYC premiere of Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s latest film, A Thousand and One Jewels, followed by a conversation with the filmmaker. Join us on June 11 @thenewschool.bsky.social veralistcenter.org/events/a-tho...

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay: ألف حليّة وحليّة A Thousand and One Jewels | Vera List Center

Jun 11, 2026

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Rounding out the first year of our "Matter of Intelligence" Seminar Series, "Artists, Scholars, and Spies" explores the entangled histories of scholarship, empire, intelligence, and espionage. With Gregory Afinogenov, Nina Hartmann & John Reed. Join us online! www.veralistcenter.org/events/semin...

Join us October 17 & 18 for the VLC Forum 2025: Matter of Intelligence, presented @thenewschool.bsky.social & online! The VLC Forum 2025 convenes interdisciplinary cultural thinkers around the subject of intelligence. Programming is free and open to the public www.veralistcenter.org/events/vlc-f...

Join us on May 5 for the spring launch of Post/doc, co-presented with Momus and feat. contributors JJJJJerome Ellis and Diana SeoHyung! We'll have a reading and listening session, followed by a conversation and small reception hosted by Storm Books & Candy. www.veralistcenter.org/events/post-...

Post/doc Spring 2025 Celebration and Launch with Momus | Vera List Center

May 5, 2025

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For the Winter 2024/25 edition of our digital publishing series Post/doc, artists kimi malka hanauer and Katie Giritlian explore imperially-produced gaps in time, space, and memory. Read their projects and other recent publications on our website. www.veralistcenter.org/publications...

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The Vera List Center for Art and Politics is a research center and a public forum for art, culture, and politics.

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This #NationalLibraryWeek, we’re spotlighting our recently published 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦* 𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘠𝘊 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘙𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴. Now in its 2nd edition, this free broadsheet foregrounds libraries as sites of intervention, co-learning, and liberation. veralistcenter.org/publications...

Join us @ascoa.bsky.social on May 6 at 6pm for "Earth and Cosmos," a conversation and screening with 2022–2024 VLC Borderlands Fellow Beatriz Cortez and artist rafa esparza, who will share insights into their current exhibition at Americas Society. veralistcenter.org/events/earth...

Earth and Cosmos: Panel Conversation and Video Screening with Beatriz Cortez and rafa esparza | Vera List Center

May 6, 2025

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For the second year in a row, we're pleased to present our New School New Books reading series in conjunction with the Spitting Image Art Book Fair (Mar 21–22), led by students of Lang College of Liberal Arts and Parsons. Learn more here! event.newschool.edu/spittingimag...

Congrats to our 2022–24 Fellow Omar Mismar, whose film A FROWN GONE MAD makes its US debut on Mar 15 at @movingimagenyc.bsky.social! The film, developed as his fellowship project, investigates Botox culture in Lebanon as an extension of ongoing cycles of conflict. movingimage.org/event/a-frow...

A Frown Gone Mad – Museum of the Moving Image

In a beauty salon in Beirut, one client after another sits in Bouba's chair seeking cosmetic treatment. Omar Mismar’s uniquely mesmerizing film consists entirely of close-ups fixed on clients’ faces. ...

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What protocols do we need now? Our latest anthology As for Protocols responds to this question. Join us for the launch on Mar 21, at 6:30pm @thenewschool.bsky.social, feat. contributors @shannonmattern.bsky.social, Salome Asega, Silas Riener, and Robert Sember. veralistcenter.org/events/as-fo...

As for Protocols Book Launch | Vera List Center

Mar 21, 2025

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Join us on March 21, for the third edition of the New School New Books faculty reading series, kicking off with artists Pablo Helguera and Noah Fischer's reading and activation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘯—a new political newspaper and “the sanest response to insane times." www.veralistcenter.org/events/new-s...

New School New Books 2025 | Vera List Center

Mar 20, 2025

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