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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.

When the Center’s Web component goes live in March, one of the most integral parts will be a virtual tour of The Dinner Party. The virtual tour and panorama are being produced by 360VR Studio, a firm specializing in this type of photography. Jook Leung, 360VR’s founder and photographer, is shown here with his special equipment that will capture this installation. Thanks to Jook’s assistant Peter Barnett for taking this photo of Jook in action.

Jook and the Center’s curator, Maura Reilly, review the first set of photographs that will eventually be stitched together to become the virtual tour.

We are very happy to be working with Jook and his team! You can check out more of his work here.