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If you are in Los Angeles, be sure to catch MoCA-LA’s exhibition WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution, which opens March 4, 2007 and runs through July 16, 2007. This exhibition focuses on feminist art from 1965-1980 and features work by more than 120 international artists, from Louise Bourgeois and Yoko Ono to Martha Rosler, Marina Abramovic, and Cindy Sherman. Curated by Connie Butler, the Ahmanson Curatorial Fellow at MoCA-LA and The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings at MoMA, the show will eventually travel to P.S.1 in New York. The exhibition catalogue is on sale now.

Linda Nochlin, co-curator of the Center’s inaugural exhibition Global Feminisms, will be a respondent at this upcoming MoMA symposium:

The Feminist Future: Theory and Practice in the Visual Arts

January 26-27, 2007
9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. both days
Titus Theater 1

This symposium addresses critical questions surrounding the relationship between art and gender, bringing together international leaders in contemporary art, art history, and related disciplines. After the activism of the 1960s and ’70s, and the revisionist critiques of the 1980s and ’90s, this symposium will examine ways in which gender is currently addressed by artists, museums, and the academy, and its future role in art practice and scholarship.

Details about the event, including the full list of speakers, can be found on MoMA’s Web site.

The Feminist Future symposium will be audiostreamed live on WPS1 Art Radio on January 26 and 27, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. each day.

Audio and video recordings of the symposium will be posted in their entirety at www.moma.org/audio one to two weeks after the event.

Linda Nochlin photo by Adam Husted

The Center is featured in the Winter 2007 issue of Ms. magazine including articles about The Dinner Party and our inaugural exhibition, Global Feminisims.

Home at Last by Michele Kort
Feminist art moves into the spotlight, with two major exhibitions and a housewarming for The Dinner Party.

Put on your dancing shoes, your hiking boots, your sandals, your sneakers. Stand up and be counted, show your support and gratitude for groundbreaking women artists, and celebrate the opening of the Center.

Join in an intergenerational performance event, a moving visual feast, and march from Prospect Park in Brooklyn (exact time and location TBA) to the Brooklyn Museum through the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. The parade will culminate in a reception given at the Brooklyn Museum in the Rubin Pavilion.

Show your support for the Brooklyn Museum by becoming a member and get exclusive access to the opening celebration! A special discounted rate for membership is being offered at the A Place at the Table Blog, so take a look for more information on the discount and upcoming news and announcements about the parade.

Melissa Messina, Research Assistant at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, recently juried this show, now on view at the Manhattan gallery SOHO20. We are very proud of Melissa, so check it out!

The exhibition title, Adam’s Rib, Eve’s Air in her Hair, refers to the many forms and manifestations of Eve. Beginning with Adam’s first wife Lilith, the temptress and seductress, to Eve, who can be wife, mother, lover, friend, goddess in the kitchen, artist, doctor, mathematician, architect, banker, teacher, and more. The air in Eve’s hair is Lilith in her spirit form.

SOHO20 was founded in 1973 as an arts organization to support and further the careers of women artists.

Adam’s Rib, Eve’s Air in her Hair
January 2 - 27, 2007
511 West 25 Street, Suite 605, NYC
Tuesday - Saturday. 12 - 6 p.m.

Joelle, the Museum’s Network Administrator, tests cellular signal from our rooftop.

When the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art opens in March 2007, we will be delivering the Center’s audio guide content via cell phone. Problem is, we don’t get cell service within our building’s very thick walls. By installing several antennas on the roof, we can grab existing outdoor cellular signal and bring it directly into the galleries.

Luckily we get a strong enough signal up here to funnel it inside, so there will be no dropped calls as our visitors listen to The Dinner Party audio tour.

Shelley Bernstein
Manager of Information Systems

Happy New Year, everyone! The opening date for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is set for March 23, 2007.

With the Grand Opening, The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago will be restored to public view on a permanent basis. Widely regarded as the first epic feminist artwork, the monumental installation functions as a symbolic history of women in Western civilization.

In celebration of the opening, the Museum presents Global Feminisms, the first international exhibition exclusively dedicated to feminist art from 1990 to the present. The show consists of work by approximately eighty women artists from around the world and includes work in all media - painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, installation, and performance.

Pharaohs, Queens and Goddesses will inaugurate the Center’s biographical gallery. Presented in tandem with Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, the exhibition is dedicated to powerful female pharaohs, queens, and goddesses from Egyptian history.