Laura Raicovich is President and Executive Director of the Queens Museum. Prior to this appointment she directed Creative Time’s Global Initiatives, served as Deputy Director at Dia Art Foundation, and held positions at the Guggenheim and Public Art Fund. She is also a writer, lectures internationally, and has contributed regularly to The Brooklyn Rail. She is the author of “At the Lightning Field,” a lyric essay and parallel text to Walter De Maria’s renowned artwork, an excerpt of which was published in X-tra, Contemporary Art Quarterly; and “A Diary of Mysterious Difficulties,” a book based on Viagra and Cialis spam recently put out by Publication Studio.