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.
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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.
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.
