Cultural Counterpower with Laura Raicovich

Acclaimed writer and art curator Laura Raicovich confronts present realities via a mashup of art and politics to reimagine what is possible, diving into undoing and redoing culture towards a just present and future. Laura Raicovich is an advocate for art that embraces complexity, poetics, and care to foster a more just civic realm. She is a member of the collective that launched The Francis Kite Club, a bar, cultural, and activist space in 2023, and is a founding member of Urban Front, a research and policy consultancy devoted to making cities better for more people. Raicovich authored authored the book "Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest" (Verso, 2021), and curates Protodispatch, a digital publication featuring artists' perspectives on global issues. Raicovich is also researching and writing a book about the artists featured in Peggy Guggenheim’s 1943 “Exhibition by 31 Women,” and has co-edited "Studies Into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech." She has held positions such as interim director of the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art and president/executive director of the Queens Museum. Raicovich has received prestigious fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and Emily H. Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators at Hyperallergic.