The Afterparty
Trailblazing artist Judy Chicago opens up about her New Museum retrospective and her 60-year-career built on taking up space.
Trailblazing artist Judy Chicago opens up about her New Museum retrospective and her 60-year-career built on taking up space.
Most people familiar with Judy Chicago likely associate her with a dinner party—The Dinner Party, (1974-79), specifically. The artist’s massive, concept-driven installation features 39 place settings on an ornately decorated triangular table that honors significant women drawn from the annals of history. Made collaboratively with over 400 contributors, it’s sat at the Brooklyn Museum on permanent display since 2007. To this day, the piece weathers criticism for its reductivism and whiteness—among the whopping 1,038 women it commemorates, only two, Sacagawea and Sojourner Truth, are of color—while earning praise for the scale of its feminist vision.
Whatever your feelings about The Dinner Party, you might be struck by the vitality and sheer variety of her work on display at “Judy Chicago: Herstory,” a three-story retrospective of the artist, now 84, on exhibit at New York’s New Museum now through January. The show coincides with the publication of Judy Chicago: The Inside Story, a volume of prints accompanied by interviews and essays by curators and critics offering insight into her evolution as an artist and collaborator. The book confirms an impressive cogency behind Chicago’s interdisciplinary and sprawling output. The “Flesh Garden,” 1971, series, for example, renders grids of acrylic sprayed with soft pastel lacquers that contrast with the paintings’ clean geometries—and with the more muted austerity of male Minimalists like Donald Judd and Frank Stella. The psychedelic painting Through the Flower 2, 1973, also deploys airbrushed gradient color, simultaneously conjuring a blooming flower, a vortex, mountains and sky, and a circle of phalluses. (“I was interested in the dissolving sensation that occurs during orgasm as a metaphor for a larger life experience,” Chicago has said of the painting.) Meanwhile, her series “Birth Hood,” 1965/2011, uses a metal car hood as a canvas for clitoral butterfly imagery, undermining the material’s original machismo, while “The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction,” 2012-18, imagines death on both a personal and global scale with kiln-fired painted glass. “Birth Project” (1980-85), another large-scale collaborative series in the vein of The Dinner Party, explores the myth and power of childbearing using a variety of needlework performed by volunteers. Earth Birth in particular is striking: Quilted by Jacquelyn Moore Alexander and stretching more than 11 feet long, the work depicts a woman in labor using crocheted iridescent black cotton. White wall peeks through from behind; as the tapestry moves, the woman on the tapestry shimmers as if she’s trembling.
The fourth floor of the New Museum is reserved for “The City of Ladies,” a group exhibition of women and queer artists that Chicago curated herself. Their works are displayed underneath giant quilted banners from her 2020 series “The Female Drive,” which she made for a Dior fashion show. The banners ask variations of the question, “What if women ruled the world?” (A wildly plush magenta and floral carpet from that show outfits the floor.) Georgia O’Keefe, Hilma af Klint, Leonora Carrington, Loïs Mailou Jones, and Zora Neale Hurston are among the 80 women whose work is featured here. The pieces are grouped with loose themes; one wall features several women wearing pants. When I visited earlier this month, I asked a museum attendant what tended to draw people’s attention. She led me to Papilla Estelar (Celestial Pablum), 1958, by the Mexican painter Remedios Varo, in which a woman spoon-feeds a sliver of a moon suspended within a birdcage and hand cranks stars into an inky sky. On the same wall, a one-minute silent film, La Fée Aux Choux, 1896, by Alice Guy-Blaché showed a corseted woman dancing with deranged joy and harvesting real-live newborns from giant cabbages.
Rose Courteau: Congratulations on your retrospective and book! How are you feeling at this moment?
Judy Chicago: Thank you! I have long said that I put my faith in art history. I’m finally seeing my decades of struggle and perseverance as a female artist come to fruition. Seeing this exhibition come together has allowed me to realize that one reason that my work has been so marginalized for so long is that the multiple contexts of my work have been unknown to the art world. I feel that my story, along with so many other women artists is finally being told. Still, it’s only the beginning of replacing the patriarchal art historical paradigm that has been presented as universal with a truly diverse art history.
RC: What are some of your earliest—or most formative—memories of beauty?
JC: I’ve always wanted to be an artist. My mother told me that I started to draw before I could talk. At an early age, I took classes at the Chicago Art Institute where I was surrounded by beauty. I remember being moved by the Impressionist paintings and their use of color and light. It wasn’t until years later that I realized that, with the exception of a few works by Mary Cassatt, women were absent.
RC: What’s your relationship to the word “career”? You seemed to express ambivalence toward that word in a 2012 interview with Rachel Cooke. “There was no way on this earth I could have had children and the career I’ve had. But you know what? I don’t care how much I had to give up. This was what I wanted,” you told her. “You have to make choices. You can’t have everything in life.” But then you also said: “I’m not career driven. Damien Hirst’s dots sold, so he made thousands of dots. I would, like, never do that! It wouldn’t even occur to me.”
JC: I think that Hirst comment was taken out of context. What I was really trying to say is that I did not make a career out of making art for the art marketplace. I created art that meant something to me personally and morally. Art to shine the spotlight on the marginalized and make meaningful art to help to change the world. When my husband, photographer Donald Woodman, and I collaborated for eight years on the Holocaust Project: From Darkness Into Light, it never once dawned on us about who would buy our work. this was a project that we had to create as a part of reclaiming our Jewish heritage and to bring to light the atrocities that have plagued history for centuries.
RC: When have you felt the most satisfied—artistically or otherwise?
JC: Each project or piece of art that I have made over the past 60 years means something to me, so it is difficult for me to single out one work. What has brought me the most satisfaction and solace over the years has been my constant time in my studio. It’s there that I’m able to tune out what the art critics have said about me and create art. There is also a sense of satisfaction that I stayed true to my artistic integrity. I have used my art and its subject matters to create awareness to various important issues. I have tried to fill the void of such subjects as women’s history, childbirth, genocide, toxic masculinity, vulnerable populations, and animal and environmental rights. As I watch much of the world roll back, I become fired up to continue to create art that educates and ignites change.
RC: I’m particularly intrigued by “Birth Project.” I find it really lovely, but reading more about the process of making it, as described in an essay by the curator Glenn Adamson, also complicated my feelings about the series. Like The Dinner Party, “Birth Project” was intensely collaborative, and you worked with approximately 150 women volunteers to produce large-scale images of birth, many of them hand-embroidered by homemakers and hobbyists. Adamson writes that these contributors often “commandeered their kitchens and dining rooms as workspaces,” and many “were pressurized by the demands of childcare, and some by the hostility of an unsympathetic husband.” You were dismayed to find that commitments of caregiving often diverted women’s time away from your project, resulting in inconsistent stitching that was a telltale sign of an irregular work schedule by women spread thin. (During this time, you wrote in your diary: “Listening to the women talk about their lives is so depressing. Why have they submitted, given in, divided their lives, fragmented their powers, prevented themselves from demanding what they deserved? Given in, Given in, Given in, Not struggled, Not helped me, Not helped us, GIVEN IN.”) Sometimes you took a piece away from a woman whose work you deemed deficient and gave it to someone else. This raises questions about the relationship between your feminism and your aesthetic sensibilities. Did you consider embracing more of the imperfect work as testimony to the pressures faced by your unpaid female labor?
JC: Rather than describe my collaborators as “unpaid female labor,” they were volunteers who had agency. Over hundreds of people asked to work with me; it was from this group that we selected the 150 needleworkers, none of whom volunteered with money in mind. Like me, we were all volunteers, except I was paid to work in that it was my responsibility to fund, prepare, tour, and store the “Birth Project” work until it could be appreciated, which was relatively recent. Many of these collaborators worked with me for many years. Jackie Moore Alexander, who worked on two pieces on display at the New Museum, was a quilter all of her life. She told me that it wasn’t until her daughter saw her work in a museum that she was able to understood and appreciated it. There are other reasons to work and create art than making money, notably making meaning. Moreover, it was my aesthetic standards that drew these artists and artisans to me, because it allowed them to grow and realize that they had more skills than they had ever dreamed of.
RC: You’ve spoken before about the fortitude and ferocity required to elbow your way into institutions that were so male dominated. The critic Julian Steinhauer recently reviewed your and wrote that your “whole oeuvre feels like a riposte to a society that encourages men to think and work on an epic scale but tells women they must make themselves small.” Your legacy within the contemporary canon, like much of your work, is quite space-taking, and in that sense, The Dinner Party works not only as a revisionist insertion of women—generally, plurally—into the historical canon, but also an assertion of yourself individually as a great woman—since The Dinner Party concerns itself most explicitly with famous, mostly white, women. In that sense, it’s quite complicated.
JC: People seem to forget that when I created The Dinner Party there was no Internet, no women’s studies programs, and very few books written on historical women. The research was painstaking and time consuming. I worked within the constraints of the resources available at the time. I like to think of “The City of Ladies,” the exhibition within an exhibition, as a way to correct that narrative by being able to create a more inclusive collection of art by women. This is only possible because of decades of research by feminist art historians none of which was available to us in the 1970s. Also, all women are still vastly underrepresented in major museum collections. As we are seeing more people of color and more women in leadership roles at art institutions, this is slowly moving in the right direction, but there is still a long way to go. This is why the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. is so important given the huge, still unknown cultural production by women. It is astounding that there is only one institution in the world dedicated to make this history known and preserving it.
RC: How do you think your public image, or your art, differs from your personal sense of yourself?
JC: The two are intertwined. My art is inspired by my struggles, passions, causes, and determination that women’s achievements will not be erased. People often confuse this with the belief that my goal is to create a matriarchal society. What I really want is to see a world of equality and inclusion for all humans.
RC: What are you looking forward to most right now?
JC: Getting back into my studio and finishing my next book, a modern-day illuminated manuscript that will be published by Thames & Hudson in May 2024 titled Revelations. It will make clear the underlying vision of my life’s work.
RC: What are you tired of being asked?
JC: Everyone is always asking me to give advice about one thing or another. I always answer that I have no wish to become the “Dear Abby” of the art world.
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Style.com was ahead of its time, bringing some closer to the runway—and others to one another—more than ever before. For Family Style's debut print issue, several editors from the legendary digital platform reunited for brunch at Paris’ gilded Cheval Blanc to reminisce about their glory days of street style, cutthroat story turnarounds, and changing the world.
“The New Village: Ten Years of New York Fashion'' at Pratt Manhattan Gallery makes the case that the city’s D.I.Y. sensibilities still pack a punch in a sartorial group show that fuses art and design.
The seventy-nine-year-old Japanese menswear icon’s closet is influenced by the changing landscape.
Amongst the treasures of Love House's new NYC design gallery, Family Style found beauty, inspiration, and even obsession for Valentine's Day. Can you blame us?
Why are so many culinary creatives covered in tattoos? Family Style met with six beautiful New Yorkers making beautiful food and beverages and stripped them down to find out more.
Peter Do and Trisha Do grew up near each other in Vietnam, but the pair didn’t become friends until meeting each other across the world, where they bonded over their shared experiences and cooking as an expression of love.
After a year’s-worth of wants, wonts, and will-I-evers, it’s finally time for the main event of the season: gifts. Take Family Style's inaugural holiday tasting menu, which spans fashion, accessories, and trophies for the home, less as an ordained prescription and more of a cherished collection of desires; many of which will surely bring a smile to a loved one’s face as well as your own, of course.
Nothing is as good as the original but New York’s three best Japanese egg sandos are as close to home as they get.
The New York-based photographer shares his family’s spin on sancocho, a classic Latin American and Caribbean dish of his childhood.
The New York-based photographer pays tribute to her grandmother with this delicious Czech dish.
Add this not-so-known Sicilian trattoria to your Italian vacation itinerary.
Alain Ducasse began quietly leading a plant-based revolution in the late ’80s, and has continued to experiment with vegetable-forward haute cuisine since. It’s an appetite to better the world that he shares with Daniel Humm, whose creative culinary philosophy has both amazed—and even angered.
The London-based writer, editor, and photographer digs into her Italian roots with this family recipe for coniglio alla cacciatora.
Who needs a dinner date when Automatic Seafood’s fried fish collar requires so much attention?
When it’s apple season in England, the Somerset-raised, London-based photographer knows just what to do. He pulls out his family’s tarte tatin recipe and whips up the beloved classic.
Over the last few years, temaki-style sushi joints have become the go-to fast-but-not-casual rage for New Yorkers with no time to waste. Despite the endless options to dine at, these four should stay top of mind.
The Denmark-based photographer shares his recipe for his go-to comfort food: pura, a cornmeal porridge that brings him back to his childhood.
Sydney Vernon infuses her work with tender and intimate snapshots of Black life. Her own memories of childhood find their way into her art—and her meals, like her mother’s turkey spinach quiche.
Graphic designer Naomi Otsu shares her tried-and-true recipe for her all-curing soba noodle soup, a dish that transports the native New Yorker back to her formative years in Tokyo.
This jewel box pastry shop in New York's Chinatown is legendary for a good reason. So are its hotdogs.
The stylist shares a family recipe for stew she keeps coming back to.
The New York-based fashion stylist, creative director, and brand consultant prefers his toast British-style.
This sparse, old school Italian eatery should be on your Salone del Mobile schedule.
The New York-based photographer shares her recipe for scalloped potatoes and roasted autumn vegetables, a minimalist pairing that brings her comfort whenever she’s in need.
Lately, the city has been raptured by novelty eateries that use exclusivity as a commodity. These tried and true staples—which you can actually get a table at—serve good food without the artifice.
The design expert shares his friend’s recipe for the perfect salty preserved garnish.
There is only one restaurant that comes to mind when the New York-based fashion journalist thinks of fine, bespoke dining.
The acclaimed London-based photographer and director shares his mother’s recipe for their family’s celebratory staple.
David Zilber was the sous chef of Hawksworth, Canada’s best restaurant, before he became the fermenter-in-chief at Noma, what many have deemed the best restaurant in the world. Now the food scientist is having the best time in his own Copenhagen kitchen, where he believes our culinary future will be far different from what we’ve come to know.
With or without a specialty grocer, the breakfast sandwich will cure you.
The writer and art critic shares his mother's spin on the celebratory Jewish bread.
The Paris-based Turkish writer shares her recipe for the perfect morning spread that lasts for hours and is meant for sharing.
The German-born, London-based photographer and director shares his favorite dish from his debut Italian cookbook.
Forget your favorite cooking method, there’s one critical step you’re likely overlooking.
The enigmatic musician and visual artist imbues everything she does with poetry. Here, she shares a boiled potatoes recipe that will warm both stomachs and hearts.
The luxury fashion house opens its debut restaurant and coffee shop in Jakarta, Indonesia. The dual dining establishments take inspiration from the brand’s New York roots—topped with a lifesize replica of the iconic yellow taxi cab.
Ruinart toasts to its year-long artist collaboration program with a Frieze LA dinner celebrating Andrea Bowers and her dedication to environmental justice.
Deep in the heart of Brooklyn, this old-world bakery is a kaleidoscopic Sicilian Willy Wonka candy jungle.
The photographer shares his mother’s recipe for this classic Eastern European dish.
Antonio D’Angelo oversees all of Giorgio Armani’s culinary empire, including Nobu Milano. When Covid-19 put a halt to importing produce from Asia, the executive chef decided to take matters into his own hands, opening his own wasabi farm in Northern Italy of all places.
Three off-the-beaten-Champs-Élysées dinners you must have on any occasion in the City of Lights.
The dual photographer and fashion stylist misses her friends (and their food).
A citrus-y pavlova to turn any somber winter day into a warm dance party.
In the heart of Portland, Oregon, where the culinary scene is as eclectic as the city itself, Gregory Gourdet interweaves centuries of history with his own memories. For Family Style No. 1, the James Beard Award-winning chef has imagined a unique three-course menu that is as powerful as it is personal.
Don’t Miss the Arroz a la Plancha, the banana pudding, or anything Jacob Nass wants to pour you at this new West Village, New York hotspot.
The Brooklyn-based writer senses what’s missing.
The Russian-Ghanaian artist has been enjoying this dish for more than three decades.
The documentary, portrait, and fashion photographer shares her mother’s recipe for blueberry coffee cake.
The Palme d'Or award-winning director and painter shares his own pasta take on sausage and pineapple.
The renowned British photographer shares his favorite dish. Much like his vivid artwork, it’s pure and simple.
To drop into New York's The Commerce Inn mid-dog walk and sip a tavern coffee with whisky and maple in one of the wooden booths on the bar-side of the quirky restaurant on a Sunday morning is the best version of stopping by a neighbor’s just to say hi.
The once-overlooked crudité has undergone a gourmet transformation, gracing upscale menus with vibrant displays of seasonal vegetables and artisanal dips.
The beautiful thing about Rowan Spencer and Emma Leigh Macdonald's seafood flatbread is that their favorite part about eating steamed mussels—dipping bread into the salty shellfish broth—happens no matter how you enjoy it. In their inaugural Family Style series, the creative pair known as Mon Petit Canard share an original recipe for the Feast of the Seven Fishes—along with some delectable musical pairings.
From politics and post-traumatic stress to cinnamon-y pumpkin pie, Thanksgiving—the annual-slash only American day dedicated to gratitude—means a lot of things to a lot of people. It also means nothing to many others. Post passing the turkey, Family Style asked 20 or so creatives from all around the world what the pre-Black Friday feast signifies for them personally, and how each celebrated this year if they did so at all.
As New York sandwich shop Regina’s Grocery debuts its third location, Family Style speaks with founder Roman Grandinetti about the delicate politics of naming menu items after family members—and mayonnaise.
Trendy restaurants often exist in an echo chamber of celebrity and social clout, but a new crop of good-looking eateries around the globe are inviting us to enjoy our comfort food and look cool, too.
The Salon is a monthly supper club put on by New York–based artists Ananya Chopra and Kritika Manchanda, who channel their childhoods to put out impeccably composed regional northern Indian food.
Eleven Madison Park owner and three Michelin star-rated chef Daniel Humm reveals four new paintings from his new book, "Eat More Plans."
Multi Michelin-starred Albert Adrià entered Armani/Ristorante executive chef Antonio D’Angelo's New York kitchen for a magnificent "four hands” meal.
This Eagle Rock, LA oyster bar is the best restaurant Patrik Sandberg has been to recently. It has a parking lot (unheard of!), which is reason enough to go, but for seafood fiends such as Sandberg, it is truly a forensic marvel worth returning to, much like a serial killer does to the scene of their crimes.
If you don’t eat a ripe, juicy fig this month, you’ll regret it until 2024.
The New York-based photographer shares his family’s spin on sancocho, a classic Latin American and Caribbean dish.
Finnish-born Tiina Laakkonen has bested all aspects of the fashion industry. Now that she’s sunset her iconic, minimalist Hamptons boutique, what’s the shopkeeper to do? Everything.
For the last four years, I've gone to sleep with and woken up beside Sophia Loren. More specifically: a life-sized poster of the actress and a giant sausage from the film La Mortadella hangs across her bed. The only thing crazier than the plot of the absurdist 1971 movie is the fact that I've never seen it—until now.
Is she sleepy or slept on? A deep-dive into the work of the New Age singer-composer reveals a better understanding of her impact—and my dad’s taste?
American textile designer Dorothy Liebes was one of the most influential textile designers of her time, so why don't more people know her name?
Family Style No. 2 explores how the objects we surround ourselves with can tell us more about ourselves.
At Salone del Mobile 2024, Family Style presented a first look at the magazine's Summer 2024 design issue in the form of an ephemeral exhibition with Sophia Roe and DRIFT.
Flaky fried chicken, buttery biscuits, plenty of okra, and an unbelievable backdrop: Family Style's SCADStyle dinner in Savannah, Georgia felt like a scene right out of a Hollywood picture.
In collaboration with Banana Republic, the magazine celebrated its brand launch at the iconic New York restaurant with an intimate dinner full of creativity, culinary, and familiar connections.
Awol Erizku, Annie Philbin, Casey Fremont, Tariku Shiferaw joined Marriott International's Jenni Benzaquen and artist Sanford Biggers at one of Los Angeles’ most iconic institutions for a lush dinner by Alice Waters celebrating art and travel.
The theme of Family Style's inaugural print issue is No Place Like Home. Here's why.