Reconnecting Art and Life or How to Refuse Authoritarianism

Public lecture by Laura Raicovich.

Writer and curator Laura Raicovich will deliver a public lecture on why museums are at the center of political discussions and how they can be reimagined.

Bio

Laura Raicovich is a New York City-based writer and curator. In 2025, she curated the inaugural Counterpublic Convening, CIRCUS OF LIFE, in St. Louis, MO, and is an initiator of Fall of Freedom, a national call for cultural resistance against authoritarianism in the US. Her book, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest (Verso 2021) is being translated into Italian, Arabic, French, Polish, and Portuguese.

Prior to these projects, Raicovich served as Director of the Queens Museum and Interim Director of the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art; she was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the Bellagio Center, and the Tremaine Curatorial Fellow for Journalism at Hyperallergic. She is the author and editor of several books, and lectures internationally and continues to work on projects that explore art, freedom of speech, and equity.