Don’t forget! The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art opens this Friday at the Brooklyn Museum. Which I haven’t visited in an unconscionably long time. Like, not since before they re-opened the renovated front entrance (which does look lovely; I’ve seen it from the outside, when I’ve been to craft fairs in the parking lot. Yes, I am properly chastened).
Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party will be permanently installed (I *did* see that, on my last visit several years ago, when I was on a date for First Saturday with a Dutch guy named Hildo (and I’m sorry, I’m twelve years old and kept thinking of the obvious there, particularly since he kept dating me and didn’t even try to kiss me), but I had a hard time getting a good look at it, it was so popular).
There’s also a complementary exhibit drawn from the permanent collection, of ceramics done by women artists.
Plus, First Saturdays are a lot of fun. There’s always a band and dance lessons as well as a film (I saw “It” with Hildo, which is a damn good movie and a good look at how sex appeal was frankly expressed on film pre-Hays Code; Clara Bow even had a single-mother roommate). The other cool thing is that the museum is not only trying, but succeeding, in drawing a local and diverse crowd with these events.