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Due to crowds on opening weekend, The Dinner Party cell phone tour was inactive to give as many visitors as possible a chance to see installation without too long of a wait.

The tour is now active, so if you are coming to the exhibition, bring your phone! The tour includes commentary from Judy Chicago, various curators, scholars, educators, and others. Using the system is as easy as dialing a telephone number and then selecting the code that corresponds to The Dinner Party component you wish to hear about. The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago Cell Phone Gallery Guide is free of charge.

All the audio on each of the 39 place settings is also available on our Web site.

If you came to the exhibition this weekend, you probably missed our comment kiosk. It’s easily missed behind a shopping rack in the exhibition’s shop ;(

In the next week or so, we will be fixing this situation, but in the meantime, if you saw the show, we’d like to know what you think! Comments can be made right from our Web site.

As we open the Center, we’ll be posting photos to our Flickr page of all the opening events. Check out the first photos from this morning’s ribbon cutting ceremony.

In related news, the Center’s Web site component has just gone live and can be viewed here.

Sorry we’ve been posting less than usual—we’ve been swamped getting everything ready for the opening weekend. We’ve got a lot to mention!

We’ve got a ton of events for the opening weekend. Everything from Members Previews, ribbon cuttings, book signings, and talks and performances. Check out the full schedule here.

In addition, we are thrilled to announce that in conjunction with the exhibition Global Feminisms, feminist artists from more than fifty countries are discussing or performing their works. Talks and performances take place every half-hour in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art—the full schedule can be found here.

Judy Chicago will be joining us to sign books on Thursday, March 22, from 2 to 3 p.m., during special preview hours. (Members will be admitted from 12 to 5 p.m.) She will also sign books from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m., during the opening celebration.

Thanks to Flickr member FFK for updating us on these other Judy Chicago sightings around town:

Judy Chicago will be signing books:
Friday, March 23, from 5 to 7 p.m.
as part of the opening reception for Setting the Table: Preparatory Work for The Dinner Party
The ACA Galleries
529 West 20th Street, 5th floor

An exhibit entitled Judy Chicago: Jewish Identity will be on show through July 6
The Hebrew Union College
Jewish Institute of Religion Museum
One West Fourth Street, between Broadway and Mercer Streets
For more information, visit the HUC Web site.

From a Flickr post:

nicola says: Bitch Magazine has a print article (no online version, sorry) about The Dinner Party, which is soon to re-debut at its permanent home, the new Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. FYI.

We’re hosting the Feminisms Without Borders Symposium. Advanced tickets are now available at the Museum’s Visitor Center in the lobby.

Saturday, March 31, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, Brooklyn Museum

Feminisms Without Borders examines contemporary feminist art from a transnational perspective. The symposium offers two panels—Resisting Histories of Art and Local/Global Feminisms—in which a range of experts in the field each discuss their individual areas of specialization, encompassing a broad geographical spectrum.

Details and schedule.