Brooklyn Museum – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party is an installation consisting of a banquet table with places set for 39 mythical and historical women; it honors an additional 999 women by inscribing their names in gold. The work, completed in 1979, addresses the absence of women from dominant historical narratives. Chicago intended The Dinner Party to be so vast and impressive that women could never again be erased from history.

Judy Chicago is an artist, author, feminist, educator, and intellectual—and the creator of The Dinner Party. Carmen Hermo is Associate Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Here, they discuss Chicago’s vision for The Dinner Party, the extensive historical research it required, and the team behind the creation of the work. 

This episode is part of The Dinner Party Today, a series by the Brooklyn Museum in which artists, writers, and thinkers reflect on the artwork’s legacy and the women it represents.

Read more about The Dinner Party and the Heritage Floor, where the names of an additional 999 women are inscribed. Hear from Massimiliano Gioni, director of the New Museum and curator of Herstory, about Judy Chicago’s work and influence. Visit the Brooklyn Museum to see The Dinner Party in person.

This project was produced by Seaplane Armada and the Brooklyn Museum.

Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party is an installation consisting of a banquet table with places set for 39 mythical and historical women; it honors an additional 999 women by inscribing their names in gold. The work, completed in 1979, addresses the absence of women from dominant historical narratives. Chicago intended The Dinner Party to be so vast and impressive that women could never again be erased from history.

Lucy Lippard is a writer, activist, and curator who has curated more than fifty major exhibitions and earned nine honorary doctorates of fine arts. Her books include Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America, Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West, and Partial Recall: Photographs of Native North Americans. Lippard’s honors include the Caroline Bancroft History Prize from the Denver Public Library and grants from Creative Capital and the Lannan Foundation. Here, she talks about Sacajawea, a member of the Shoshone Tribe in present-day Idaho, who was an essential guide for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition through North America in 1804.

This episode is part of The Dinner Party Today, a series by the Brooklyn Museum in which artists, writers, and thinkers reflect on the artwork’s legacy and the women it represents.

Read more about The Dinner Party, Sacajawea, and the Heritage Floor, where the names of an additional 999 women are inscribed. Visit the Brooklyn Museum to see the installation in person.

This project was produced by Seaplane Armada and the Brooklyn Museum.

Spike Lee remembers novelist Toni Morrison and a portrait of her painted by artist Tim Okamura. In 2020, Morrison (1931–2019) was commemorated as one of Time magazine’s “100 Women of the Year.” As part of the project, Time created new covers for past issues, for which this painting was commissioned. The portrait became the cover of the reimagined 1993 issue, honoring the year Morrison became the first Black woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature.

This episode is part of an adapted audio guide to Spike Lee: Creative Sources, open at the Brooklyn Museum through February 4, 2024. Visit www.brooklynmuseum.org for tickets.

See a photo of the portrait and other objects Lee discusses: https://bit.ly/SpikeLeeGuide 

This project was produced by Seaplane Armada and the Brooklyn Museum.

Spike Lee describes where he first saw the posters for The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, two films that he has underscored as particularly important to him and his work.

This episode is part of an adapted audio guide to Spike Lee: Creative Sources, open at the Brooklyn Museum through February 4, 2024. Visit www.brooklynmuseum.org for tickets.

See a photo of the posters and other objects Lee discusses: https://bit.ly/SpikeLeeGuide 

This project was produced by Seaplane Armada and the Brooklyn Museum.

Spike Lee talks about the photographer Richard Avedon and his portrait of Malcolm X, created in 1963.

This episode is part of an adapted audio guide to Spike Lee: Creative Sources, open at the Brooklyn Museum through February 4, 2024. Visit www.brooklynmuseum.org for tickets.

See a photo of the portrait and other objects Lee discusses: https://bit.ly/SpikeLeeGuide 

This project was produced by Seaplane Armada and the Brooklyn Museum.

Spike Lee describes the summer of 1977, when he received a Super 8 camera as a gift from a childhood friend while he was in New York on break from Morehouse College.

This episode is part of an adapted audio guide to Spike Lee: Creative Sources, open at the Brooklyn Museum through February 4, 2024. Visit www.brooklynmuseum.org for tickets.

See a photo of the camera and other objects Lee discusses: https://bit.ly/SpikeLeeGuide 

This project was produced by Seaplane Armada and the Brooklyn Museum.

Spike Lee reads a letter that President Barack Obama wrote to him in 2015, when Lee received an honorary Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

This episode is part of an adapted audio guide to Spike Lee: Creative Sources, open at the Brooklyn Museum through February 4, 2024. Visit www.brooklynmuseum.org for tickets.

See a photo of the letter and other objects Lee discusses: https://bit.ly/SpikeLeeGuide 

This project was produced by Seaplane Armada and the Brooklyn Museum.

Spike Lee reveals how he received Prince's unique "Love Symbol" guitar from the artist himself. Lee worked with Prince several times, directing some of his music videos and using his songs in the film Girl 6.

This episode is part of an adapted audio guide to Spike Lee: Creative Sources, open at the Brooklyn Museum through February 4, 2024. Visit www.brooklynmuseum.org for tickets.

See a photo of the guitar and other objects Lee discusses: https://bit.ly/SpikeLeeGuide 

This project was produced by Seaplane Armada and the Brooklyn Museum.

Spike Lee talks about the French poster for Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront, one of his favorite films, which he credits with changing cinema.

This episode is part of an adapted audio guide to Spike Lee: Creative Sources, open at the Brooklyn Museum through February 4, 2024. Visit www.brooklynmuseum.org for tickets.

See a photo of the poster and other objects Lee discusses: https://bit.ly/SpikeLeeGuide

This project was produced by Seaplane Armada and the Brooklyn Museum.

Spike Lee remembers taking a photo with his siblings, Joie, David, Cinqué, and Christopher Lee, at 186 Warren Street in Cobble Hill, where they lived as children. The photo is dated circa 1967–70.

This episode is part of an adapted audio guide to Spike Lee: Creative Sources, open at the Brooklyn Museum through February 4, 2024. Visit www.brooklynmuseum.org for tickets.

See the photo and other objects Lee discusses: https://bit.ly/SpikeLeeGuide

This project was produced by Seaplane Armada and the Brooklyn Museum.