brooklynmuseum:Today marks forty years since Judy Chicago’s epic artwork The Dinner Party debuted at
brooklynmuseum:Today marks forty years since Judy Chicago’s epic artwork The Dinner Party debuted at @sfmoma. It attracted a record-breaking 100,000 visitors, marking for many the first time they learned of women’s contributions to Western civilization. A network of support led The Dinner Party to travel, crowd-funded, to fourteen cities on three continents. The tour included a stop at Brooklyn Museum from 1980-81, and today it is on display at the heart of our Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Learn more about this influential artwork by joining curator Carmen Hermo’s free tour today at 2 pm. Film still from Right out of History: The Making of Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party, 1980. Directed and edited by Johanna Demetrakas © Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Courtesy of Through the Flower ArchivesMore about The Dinner Party: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/homeAncient women honored in The Dinner Party include: HatshepsutSapphoAspasiaHypatiaNOTE: Judy Chicago is an artist, not a historian. Some of the claims about the “dinner guests” are exaggerated; for instance, Hypatia wasn’t “the first woman” to make significant advances in the fields of mathematics and philosophy. For Chicago, Hypatia represents ancient women in STEM who were erased - sometimes, like Hypatia, literally. -- source link
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