Maria Grazia Chiuri on Artemisia Gentileschi | The Dinner Party Today

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. Maria Grazia Chiuri was named Creative Director of Dior in 2016, becoming the first woman to hold this position. She studied at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, and her honors include the Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur (Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor). Here, she talks about Artemisia Gentileschi, whose work as an early Italian Baroque painter was long neglected by scholars in spite of her extensive achievements in the art world. 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, Artemisia Gentileschi, 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.