Laura Raicovich at Summer School as School 2022
August 13, 2022, 15:00
Venue: Boxing Club

Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest 

New York based writer and curator, Laura Raicovich, discusses her tenure as director of the Queens Museum under the Trump Administration, and the experiences that led her to pen her most recent book, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest (Verso 2021). She will address not only the circumstances that made the book necessary, but also what she learned from the process of researching and writing the book which engaged dozens of artists, colleagues in the arts, and other thinker about cultural space, power, and sites of culture.

Biography:
Laura Raicovich is a New York-based writer and curator whose lauded book, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest was published in 2021 by Verso Books. She recently served as Interim Director of the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art; was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the Bellagio Center; was awarded the inaugural Emily H. Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators at Hyperallergic, and is launching a new art initiative titled Protodispatch with the Istanbul-based Protocinema in September 2022.

While Director of the Queens Museum from 2015 to 2018, Raicovich co-curated Mel Chin: All Over the Place (2018), a multi-borough survey of the artist's work that filled the entire museum. She has also held positions at Creative Time, Dia Art Foundation, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Public Art Fund. Raicovich lectures internationally is the author of At the Lightning Field (CHP 2017) and A Diary of Mysterious Difficulties (Publication Studio 2014); she is co-editor of Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production (OR 2017) and Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech (Amherst Press 2022).