In our current historically precarious moment, what is the role of cultural organizations and art? How might they adapt and change to the demands of these times? Is it enough? Writer and curator, Laura Raicovich, will discuss her recent book, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest (Verso 2021) providing her personal experiences as a former museum director, art worker, and committed seeker of equity. Having led the Queens Museum for three years during the period of Trump’s election and its aftermath, in addition to over 20 years of working in culture, Raicovich will delve into the structures that exist and how, in the context of ongoing, iterative institutional failures, people can remake and remodel cultural production, reality, and imagination collectively. The discussion will be lively and will invite participation.

Laura Raicovich is a New York based writer and curator whose book, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest was published by Verso Books in June 2021. She is currently the curator and editor of Protodispatch, a new digital publication featuring artists perspectives on transcontinental concerns, as well as a founding member of Urban Front, a collective effort to imagine and implement progressive solutions to urban challenges. She recently served as Interim Director of the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, and previously was Director of the Queens Museum, as well as a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the Bellagio Center, and the Tremaine Curatorial Fellow for Journalism at Hyperallergic.

This remote event will take place via Zoom.