Vera List Center for Art and Politics

Duane Linklater and the Limits of Dia Art Foundation’s Reckoning

Features June 24, 2026

David W. Norman

Duane Linklater and the Limits of Dia Art Foundation’s Reckoning

What Remains: The Fugitive Gestures of Carmen Neely at Mariane Ibrahim

Reviews May 28, 2026

Alexandra M. Thomas

What Remains: The Fugitive Gestures of Carmen Neely at Mariane Ibrahim

Belonging to Ourselves: Lynn Hershman Leeson and Sophie Calle

Reviews April 30, 2026

Tara Anne Dalbow

Belonging to Ourselves: Lynn Hershman Leeson and Sophie Calle

“Post/doc” Launch: Intervals

Talk May 5, 2025 6:30 PM

Storm Books & Candy
Brooklyn

“Post/doc” Launch: Intervals

TJ Shin

TJ Shin

Without Deference: The Political Clarity of Coco Fusco at El Museo del Barrio

Reviews January 22, 2026

Luke Urbain

Without Deference: The Political Clarity of Coco Fusco at El Museo del Barrio

Summer Kim Lee and TJ Shin

Summer Kim Lee and TJ Shin

Go on Without Me: Summer Kim Lee and TJ Shin on Absenteeism, Endlessness, and Recursion

Features December 3, 2025

Summer Kim Lee, TJ Shin

Go on Without Me: Summer Kim Lee and TJ Shin on Absenteeism, Endlessness, and Recursion

TJ Shin

TJ Shin

asdf

Features, Reviews September 4, 2025

Jeffrey Gibson Saves America

Love Letter Incinerators: Martin Wong’s Prison Paintings

Features August 14, 2025

Ramona Ngin

Love Letter Incinerators: Martin Wong’s Prison Paintings

A Note on Omission: Navigating Institutional Censorship and the Need for Repair

Features July 17, 2025

Najrin Islam

A Note on Omission: Navigating Institutional Censorship and the Need for Repair

Implied Threat, Implied Responsibility: Elizabeth Catlett at the National Gallery of Art

Reviews June 26, 2025

MacKenzie River Foy

Implied Threat, Implied Responsibility: Elizabeth Catlett at the National Gallery of Art

Havensong (after and for heidi andrea restrepo rhodes and Diana SeoHyung)

Features May 1, 2025

JJJJJerome Ellis

Havensong (after and for heidi andrea restrepo rhodes and Diana SeoHyung)

가는 길: Decision to Leave / On Leaving / Leaving

Features April 28, 2025

가는 길: Decision to Leave / On Leaving / Leaving

A Very Real American Place: The Suburban Unconscious in Mike Kelley

Reviews March 6, 2025

Simon Wu

A Very Real American Place: The Suburban Unconscious in Mike Kelley

Disposability, Divestment, and Action: The Palestine Solidarity Movement and the State of Art in Toronto

Features February 5, 2025

Tiana Reid

Disposability, Divestment, and Action: The Palestine Solidarity Movement and the State of Art in Toronto

Reviewing the Reviews: The 2024 Whitney Biennial

Features, Reviews August 15, 2024

Jessica Lynne, Catherine G. Wagley

Reviewing the Reviews: The 2024 Whitney Biennial

Goodbye to Berlin

Features, Reviews July 31, 2024

Sholem Krishtalka

Goodbye to Berlin

Loosening the Stays

Features May 15, 2024

Claudia La Rocco

Loosening the Stays

Do You Believe in Aliens?: Re-Indigenizing the Algorithmic Tropes of Intelligence

Features February 29, 2024

Kira Xonorika

Do You Believe in Aliens?: Re-Indigenizing the Algorithmic Tropes of Intelligence

Our Visuality: Abortion Care Work and Photography

Features February 23, 2024

Carmen Winant

Our Visuality: Abortion Care Work and Photography

Tracking the Sapphic Social Imaginaries: Lesbian Art in Print

Features October 16, 2023

Tracking the Sapphic Social Imaginaries: Lesbian Art in Print

An Alien Echo at the Gwangju Biennale

Reviews June 8, 2023

X. Amy Zhang

An Alien Echo at the Gwangju Biennale

Between Language and Cure: Athena Papadopoulos at MOCA Toronto

Reviews June 1, 2023

Tiana Reid

Between Language and Cure: Athena Papadopoulos at MOCA Toronto

Evidence of Things Seen*: Capture and Control in India

Features May 22, 2023

Arushi Vats

Evidence of Things Seen*: Capture and Control in India

Reviewing the Reviews: Documenta 15

Features, Reviews December 10, 2022

Rahel Aima and Catherine G. Wagley

Reviewing the Reviews: Documenta 15

“I Wish We Could Reach for New Language”: An Interview with Sky Goodden

Features April 4, 2022

Calum Sutherland

“I Wish We Could Reach for New Language”: An Interview with Sky Goodden

“I Left This for a Reason”: An Interview with Amy Fung

Features May 17, 2021

Jarrett Earnest

“I Left This for a Reason”: An Interview with Amy Fung

Anna Mayer Reconstitutes Loss in Houston

Features, Reviews April 20, 2021

Laura August

Anna Mayer Reconstitutes Loss in Houston

Ron Athey’s “Far-Right Flirtations”

Features, Reviews April 7, 2021

Simon Wu

Ron Athey’s “Far-Right Flirtations”

The Anxious “I”: Walter Scott’s Autofictional Universe

Features, Reviews October 22, 2020

Saelan Twerdy

The Anxious “I”: Walter Scott’s Autofictional Universe

“As a Matter of Survival”: Dark Study on Making Art School a Radical Refuge

Features September 17, 2020

Andrew Woolbright

“As a Matter of Survival”: Dark Study on Making Art School a Radical Refuge

Between the Gallery and the Street: An Interview with Vanessa Thill

Features August 18, 2020

Andreas Petrossiants

Between the Gallery and the Street: An Interview with Vanessa Thill

With Sharper Tools: Defending the National Endowment for the Arts

Features March 6, 2020

Ben Davis

With Sharper Tools: Defending the National Endowment for the Arts

In the Waiting Room: The Sticky, Slippery Duration of “Sick Time”

Reviews December 21, 2019

Tao Fei

In the Waiting Room: The Sticky, Slippery Duration of “Sick Time”

Land and Landlessness: A Conversation with Larry Towell

Features December 19, 2019

Giancarlo T. Roma

Land and Landlessness: A Conversation with Larry Towell

Love and Loneliness: Queering Modernisms in Figurative Painting

Features, Reviews August 1, 2019

Joseph Henry

Love and Loneliness: Queering Modernisms in Figurative Painting

An Always Fractured Order: Hal Foster’s Unromantic Avant-Garde

Features March 26, 2018

Ben Davis

An Always Fractured Order: Hal Foster’s Unromantic Avant-Garde

Privilege as Political Tool: Tania Bruguera on the Usefulness of Art

Features November 21, 2017

Merray Michael Mina

Privilege as Political Tool: Tania Bruguera on the Usefulness of Art

How (Not) To Retrospect: Beverly Buchanan in Brooklyn and Georgia

Reviews November 3, 2017

Jordan Amirkhani

How (Not) To Retrospect: Beverly Buchanan in Brooklyn and Georgia

A Parasitic ‘joie de vivre’ in “Viva Arte Viva”

Features, Reviews May 30, 2017

Mitch Speed

A Parasitic ‘joie de vivre’ in “Viva Arte Viva”

“Science Truth” and Fearless Feminism in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s “Civic Radar”

Reviews May 12, 2017

Wendy Vogel

“Science Truth” and Fearless Feminism in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s “Civic Radar”

The Inevitable Cannibalization of Institutional Critique: Surveying Michael Asher and Christopher D’Arcangelo in L.A.

Reviews April 20, 2017

Hyunjee Nicole Kim

The Inevitable Cannibalization of Institutional Critique: Surveying Michael Asher and Christopher D’Arcangelo in L.A.

Acting Out: The Visibility of Blackness in the Work of Martine Syms

Reviews November 30, 2016

Zoë Chan

Acting Out: The Visibility of Blackness in the Work of Martine Syms

Interview: Paul Petro on Becoming the Legacy-Building, “Bent Identity Politics” Gallerist of Toronto

Features August 9, 2016

Sky Goodden

Interview: Paul Petro on Becoming the Legacy-Building, “Bent Identity Politics” Gallerist of Toronto

The Unspecific (But Straining) Politics of Joan Jonas

Reviews June 3, 2016

Mitch Speed

The Unspecific (But Straining) Politics of Joan Jonas

Regionalism Vs. Provincialism: Agitating Against Critical Neglect in Artworld Peripheries

Features April 18, 2016

Amy Zion, Cora Fisher

Regionalism Vs. Provincialism: Agitating Against Critical Neglect in Artworld Peripheries

Abstraction Made Political: Helena Almeida Rewrites Her Own History in Portugal

Reviews January 5, 2016

Owen Duffy

Abstraction Made Political: Helena Almeida Rewrites Her Own History in Portugal

Any Plans After the Exhibition?

Features January 4, 2016

Orit Gat

Any Plans After the Exhibition?

A Spitting Fit of Teenage Rage: On the Increasing Impotence of Political Art

Features September 16, 2015

RM Vaughan

A Spitting Fit of Teenage Rage: On the Increasing Impotence of Political Art

To Cut and To Swipe: Understanding Hito Steyerl Through “HOW NOT TO BE SEEN”

Features May 12, 2015

Kaegan Sparks

To Cut and To Swipe: Understanding Hito Steyerl Through “HOW NOT TO BE SEEN”

The Suffering Body of 1993: Whatever Happened to the “Abject”

Features April 27, 2015

Joseph Henry

The Suffering Body of 1993: Whatever Happened to the “Abject”

Interview: Stephen Bulger Reflects on Twenty Years of Missteps, Success, and Advancing Form in Photography

Features April 16, 2015

Sky Goodden

Interview: Stephen Bulger Reflects on Twenty Years of Missteps, Success, and Advancing Form in Photography

Tools for Redress: A Century of Political Art Between “Zero Tolerance” and “The Left Front”

Features April 1, 2015

Will Fenstermaker

Tools for Redress: A Century of Political Art Between “Zero Tolerance” and “The Left Front”

Year in Review: The Women Represented

Features December 31, 2014

Joseph Henry

Year in Review: The Women Represented

Sign up for the Momus newsletter to hear about new publishing & podcast episodes, open calls, upcoming residencies, talks, and more.