Massimiliano Gioni on Christine de Pisan | 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. Massimiliano Gioni is the Artistic Director of the New Museum, where Judy Chicago: Herstory—the first comprehensive New York museum survey of Chicago's work—is on view through March 3, 2024. He discusses Chicago's legacy and that of Christine de Pisan, a medieval writer and intellectual represented in The Dinner Party. 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, Christine de Pisan, and the Heritage Floor, where the names of an additional 999 women are inscribed. Visit the Brooklyn Museum to see the installation in person. Also get tickets to the New Museum to see Judy Chicago: Herstory. This project was produced by Seaplane Armada and the Brooklyn Museum.