Judy Chicago News

Los Angeles-based Cleopatra Records and artist-run cassette label Practical Records present Rachel Mason 'Heart Explodes', the second single from the forthcoming 'Das Ram' album, which has premiered in The Big Takeover and initially shown at a screening of new video works by women artists at Red Bull Studios NYC.

The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art proudly announces its upcoming event, 'The War on Drugs: On-Screen and Off,' taking place today, September 10th from 2-4p.m. at the Brooklyn Museum.

The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University has announced its Fall 2015 exhibitions: Lisa Yuskavage: The Brood; LA/MA: '60s Pop from Both Coasts; Rose Video 07 | Nira Pereg; Jason Rhoades: Multiple Deviations; a site-specific mural by Joyce Pensato; and the unveiling of a permanent installation, Mark Dion: The Undisciplined Collector. An opening reception will be held Saturday, September 12, 2015 from 5-9pm.

The Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Arts and Design Present 'Judy Chicago: On Fire,' a Special Two-Night Event Exploring the Artist's Fireworks Judy Chicago, A Butterfly for Brooklyn, 2014 Judy Chicago & Pyro Spectaculars Photo (c) Donald Woodman. Today, April 9 and Friday, April 10, The Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) will collaborate to showcase the pyrotechnic performance pieces of world-renowned artist Judy Chicago.

The Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Arts and Design Present 'Judy Chicago: On Fire,' a Special Two-Night Event Exploring the Artist's Fireworks Judy Chicago, A Butterfly for Brooklyn, 2014 Judy Chicago & Pyro Spectaculars Photo (c) Donald Woodman On Thursday, April 9 and Friday, April 10, The Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) will collaborate to showcase the pyrotechnic performance pieces of world-renowned artist Judy Chicago.

A selection of 100 works from the nearly 10,000 acquired during the tenure of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Director of the Brooklyn Museum, Arnold Lehman, will be presented in his honor on the occasion of his retirement in the summer of 2015.

Chitra Ganesh: Eyes of Time, an exhibition featuring a multimedia, site-specific installation created by Brooklyn artist Chitra Ganesh and an artist-curated selection from the Brooklyn Museum collection, will be on view in the Herstory Gallery of the Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art from today, December 12, 2014, through July 2015.

Chitra Ganesh: Eyes of Time, an exhibition featuring a multimedia, site-specific installation created by Brooklyn artist Chitra Ganesh and an artist-curated selection from the Brooklyn Museum collection, will be on view in the Herstory Gallery of the Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art from December 12, 2014, through July 2015.

Below are this week's events at Bookworks. For more information, visit bkwrks.com/event.

Below are this week's events at Bookworks. For more information, visit bkwrks.com/event.

Below are this week's events at Bookworks. For more information on any of these events, visit bkwrks.com/event.

September 10, 2014...Brooklyn, N.Y. Arnold L. Lehman, Shelby White and Leon Levy Director of the Brooklyn Museum, announced yesterday at the fall meeting of the Board of Trustees that he will retire in mid-2015. Lehman, who turned 70 in July, joined the Brooklyn Museum as Director in September 1997.

Below are Bookworks' featured events for the month of September. For more information on any of the events, visit bkwrks.com/event.

The Members of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Museum have elected Elizabeth A. Sackler, Board member since 2000, as the Museum's Chair. Dr. Sackler, the first woman in the nearly 200-year history of the Museum to serve in that position, is the founder of the Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. She succeeds retiring chair John S. Tamagni, who has served as Chair since 2011 and will continue to serve as an active Board member.

The 2014 Sackler Center First Award honors Anita F. Hill for Speaking Truth to Power. The awards ceremony takes place at the Brooklyn Museum tonight, June 5, from 6 to 9 p.m.

The Leon Levy Foundation, led by Founding Trustee Shelby White, has made a leadership gift of $5 million to the Brooklyn Museum to endow the position of Director. It is the largest endowment gift to the Museum from a non-trustee donor and the largest gift from a foundation in more than a decade. The inaugural position of The Shelby White and Leon Levy Director of the Brooklyn Museum will be held by Arnold L. Lehman, who has been Director since 1997.

The 2014 Sackler Center First Award honors Anita F. Hill for Speaking Truth to Power. The awards ceremony takes place at the Brooklyn Museum on Thursday, June 5, from 6 to 9 p.m. This annual award celebrates women who have broken gender barriers and made remarkable contributions in their fields, and will be presented to Hill by Museum Trustee Elizabeth A. Sackler and Gloria Steinem, with First Lady of New York City Chirlane McCray, Honorary Chair of the event.

To celebrate her seventy-fifth birthday, artist Judy Chicago will create A Butterfly for Brooklyn, a monumental pyrotechnic performance piece drawing inspiration from her earliest explorations of feminist imagery, in Brooklyn's Prospect Park tonight, April 26, at 7:30 p.m.

The Brooklyn Museum will present a variety of public programs for adults, teens, and kids in May. Public programs include talks, late night events, performances, screenings, and hands-on workshops for children and adults that amplify the Museum's exhibitions and permanent collection, serve its diverse public, and support learning through the visual arts.

Chicago in L.A.: Judy Chicago's Early Work 1963-74, the first survey on the East Coast of the artist's early career, will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum from today, April 4 through September 28, 2014.