• Out of Town

The Art Students League is proud to present a book talk with writer and curator Laura Raicovich, followed by a conversation with Raicovich and The League’s Artistic Executive Director, Michael Hall. The evening will focus on Laura’s incendiary 2021 publication, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest, which investigates how cultural institutions have come under fire in recent years as concerned members of the arts community have mobilized in critique of sources of museum funding. Protests have affected and targeted institutions all over the world from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Abu Dhabi Guggenheim, and the Akron Art Museum. Laura will read excerpts from Culture Strike in the Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery of The League, where copies will also be available to purchase. Raicovich and Hall will discuss the book’s themes both as they relate to The League and to the broader art world beyond our walls. This will be Laura’s first in-person event in New York City since the book’s release in the summer of 2021.
This is a live, in-person event at The League’s landmark building on 57th Street. The talk will be available on their youtube channel the following day.