Judy Chicago’s “The City of Ladies” installation brings together the work of over eighty women and genderqueer artists from across centuries, contextualizing Chicago’s practice within a genealogy of feminist art-making.

For this evening of talks and conversations, we’ve invited a new generation of writers and thinkers to make their own connections with the alternative art history canon presented in “City of Ladies.” Speakers will take up individual works and themes in the installation, addressing motherhood, the erotic, feminist activism, and the performance of gender through personal responses.

Scholar Sophie Lewis, poet Simone White, and novelist Kate Zambreno will each speak in response to a work featured in the installation, followed by a conversation with moderator and exhibition co-curator Madeline Weisburg.

Sophie Lewis (they/she) teaches courses on critical theory at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and has a visiting affiliation with the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Simone White (she/her) is a poet and critic based in New York. She is the author, most recently, of the book-length poem or, on being the other woman (Duke, 2022) and the companion critical book Warring (forthcoming from Duke).

Kate Zambreno is the author of many books, most recently The Light Room, a meditation on art and care (Riverhead, 2023), and Tone, a collaborative study with Sofia Samatar (Columbia University Press, 2023).

More information on the event can be found here.