The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago

Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, 11238, New York City

March 23, 2007 – December 31, 2027

The Dinner Party, an important icon of 1970s feminist art and a milestone in twentieth-century art, is presented as the centerpiece around which the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is organized. The work comprises a massive ceremonial banquet arranged on a triangular table with thirty-nine place settings, each commemorating an important woman from history. The settings consist of embroidered runners, gold chalices and utensils, and china-painted porcelain plates with raised central motifs based on vulvar and butterfly forms rendered in styles appropriate to individual women being honored. The names of 999 additional women are inscribed in gold on the white tile floor below the triangular table. This permanent installation is enhanced by rotating Herstory Gallery exhibitions relating to the 1,038 women honored.