`Dinner' with Judy; Iconic feminist artist Judy Chicago stops in town for a lecture and a tribute to her masterpiece.(VITA.MN)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: April 17, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: GREGORY J. SCOTT

`If `The Dinner Party' were something only of the `70s, I doubt that 2,000 people a week would be trooping out to the Brooklyn Museum to see it, do you?"

If Judy Chicago occasionally shifts into a bristly defensiveness, it's a forgivable slip. Few other artists from the last half of the 20th century have suffered so much unwarranted trashing in the press and dismissal from the art world at large. The iconic feminist is entitled to a terse moment here and there. Since she debuted her epic monument to forgotten female achievement in 1979, Chicago ...

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