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In conjunction with Global Feminisms, 46 out 88 international artists featured in the exhibition discussed or performed their works in the Forum of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. These artist talks took place during the Center’s opening weekend, March 23–25, 2007.

Videos of the Artist Talks have now been posted!

Also of note, if you are looking for a list of works in the Global Feminisms exhibition, we’ve posted an illustrated exhibition checklist on the Global Feminisms exhibition page.

Pics from May’s Target First Saturday have been posted to Flickr.

Pics from April’s Target First Saturday have been posted to Flickr.

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.

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.

Linda Nochlin and Maura Reilly, co-curators of the Center’s inaugural exhibition, recorded the introduction to the Global Feminisms audio tour today. This tour, free to our visitors and delivered via cell phone, will feature many of the artists in the exhibition responding to their relationship to feminism.

Cell phone audio has helped us in many ways. One of the nice things about the new production method is that tour stops can be recorded via phone, similar to leaving a standard voice mail message. Since the show consists of work by approximately eighty women artists from around the world, we found this aspect incredibly helpful in producing our tour. We could send questions to many of the artists and ask them to record their answers via phone. We didn’t have to worry about arranging for a studio offsite or asking them to make a special trip to do a recording.

If we can arrange to do the recording onsite, the quality is often more predictable, so we try and take advantage of this when we can. For this session, Maura and Linda also took the opportunity to try out a new shade of MAC Cosmetics lipstick, Plumful.

Shelley Bernstein
Manager of Information Systems

We started off this week with a full round of recordings for The Dinner Party audio tour. This tour, free to our visitors and delivered via cell phone, will feature a range of voices, including curators, educators, scholars, and others.

Judy Chicago dropped by to record the introduction.

Susan Zeller, the Brooklyn Museum’s Assistant Curator for the Arts of the Americas, recorded the piece for the Sacajawea place setting.

Radiah Harper, Vice Director for Education, recorded one of Sojourner Truth’s most famous speeches “Ain’t I a Woman.”

Bob Nardi, our resident sound wizard, set us up and watched over the recordings in progress. Thanks, Bob!