Laura Raicovich

Laura Raicovich is a New York City-based writer and curator. She is editor and curator of Protodispatch, a digital publication featuring artists’ perspectives on transcontinental political, social, economic, and environmental concerns; she initiated the forum with Mari Spirito and Protocinema in 2022. Her recent book, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest, was published in 2021 by Verso Books. With a collective of artists, musicians, and culture workers, Raicovich will open Francis Kite Club, a bar/cultural/activist space in NYC’s East Village in 2023. Prior to these projects, Raicovich served as Interim Director of the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, and as Director of the Queens Museum; she was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the Bellagio Center, and the Tremaine Curatorial Fellow for Journalism at Hyperallergic.