Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party at the Brooklyn Museum. Photo: Courtesy of Brooklyn Museum
AN ICON OF of American art, Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party is the focus of the new Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. The generous and elegant facility features 8,300 square feet dedicated to showing art reflecting “the core values of feminism—equality and justice.” The story of how The Dinner Party came not once, but twice to Brooklyn, exemplifies the nexus of art and politics.
The Dinner Party made its debut to great fanfare at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on March 15, 1979. The museum’s director, Henry Hopkins, praised the work, explaining that Chicago, with deliberate irony, had employed “women’s technique...
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