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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.

6 thoughts on Art Stuff

  1. The Brooklyn Museum is fabulous. They were doing something still when a friend and I were there recently.

    We spent all day there and got through one floor + a little bit of the exhibit from someone who makes reproductions of old masters paintings out of spools of thread and rhinestones. Which was..interesting.

  2. I should go. The last time I was there was for the Maxfield Parrish exhibit which was about a billion years ago. Well, actually, 2000, but it felt like a billion years ago.

    I would love to see this exhibit!

  3. Ooooh — I’ve wanted to see “The Dinner Party” ever since one of my high school humanities teachers showed us some of the pictures of it. Of course, it means a cross-country trip (no pun intended). Glad to know it’s finally found a permanent home.

    If you’re really interested in pre-Code film, look for the “Forbidden Hollywood” collection that TCM just put out recently. They restored the original (censored) ending to Barbara Stanwyck’s Baby Face where she ends up back in the same coal town that she tried to escape.

  4. I’m sorry to use this thread to ask this, but what do you guys think about those “eggs for cash” egg donor things? I’m a college woman in a LOT of financial trouble, and I feel like this is the only way for me to make enough money fast enough to not ruin my life. (I owe my college a lot of money, and the office of student accounts take their best practices from the mafia.) In principle, I’m not comfortable with the idea of literally selling my body for cash, but I’m really desperate and this seems like the least degrading way I can make a lot of money very quickly.

  6. I’m sorry to use this thread to ask this, but what do you guys think about those “eggs for cash” egg donor things? I’m a college woman in a LOT of financial trouble, and I feel like this is the only way for me to make enough money fast enough to not ruin my life.

    I did that when I was in your position. It’s not fast, since you have to go through a whole menstrual cycle and get synced with the woman who’s going to be impregnated. Then of course there are the fertility drugs you take to increase the number of eggs you produce. And yes, you can get VERY VERY pregnant should you have, say, a condom break during the process.

    Another thing to consider is that you have to inject yourself daily, often with a REALLY BIG NEEDLE in an awkward place in your hip, and at the very least with a small needle in your thigh. So if you have needle phobia, this is not a good option.

    Finally, aside from the risk of getting pregnant yourself, there is the increased risk of cancer that comes from using these drugs. It’s not something I remember them telling me about, but I don’t know if the link was known back then.

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