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Yearlong Feminist Art Exhibition Coming to Brooklyn Museum

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The "Year of Yes" exhibit will include artwork by Faith Ringgold (top left), Judy Chicago (top right), Marilyn Minter (bottom left) and Georgia O'Keeffe (bottom right).
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PROSPECT HEIGHTS — Get ready for the “Year of Yes.”

For the 10th anniversary of the Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum this fall, the museum has planned a full year of female-centric artwork and programming with the goal of “reimagining feminism,” organizers said.

Starting in October, the museum will open a series of exhibits and public events showcasing “voices from the history of feminism” and feminist art, according to a press release, including a look at Georgia O’Keeffe’s style of dress and an investigation of how feminism has shaped the Brooklyn Museum itself.

Beginning with a retrospective of photography and sculpture from Beverly Buchanan — known for exploring Southern American architecture, particularly the “shack” — and ending with an exploration of “The Dinner Party,” the famous feminist sculpture by Judy Chicago permanently installed in the Sackler Center, the “Year of Yes” will have continuous displays through early 2018.

Here are the seven main exhibits planned for the feminist art show in the next year:

► Beverly Buchanan: Ruins and Rituals
Oct. 21, 2016 through March 5, 2017

This exhibit of Buchanan’s work through her life shows more than 200 objects including photography, sculpture and self-portraits. In particular, the exhibit will explore the places that inspired her work, including Georgia, Florida and New York.

► Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty
Nov. 4, 2016 through April 2, 2017

A first retrospective of iconic feminist artist Marilyn Minter, this exhibit will include 45 paintings, videos and photographs from 1969 to the present that focus on Minter’s main artistic theme: perceptions of the feminine body in mainstream culture.

► Iggy Pop Life Class
Nov. 4, 2016 through March 26, 2017

See 53 life paintings of Iggy Pop’s nude form as part of this exhibit that aims to “examine shifting cultural readings of the nude male body across history,” the museum says. The drawings were created by 22 artists in a surprise nude modeling drawing class with the iconic rocker in February of this year.

► A Woman’s Afterlife: Gender Transformation in Ancient Egypt
Opening Dec. 2, 2016

A showcase of work from the museum’s Egyptian collection explores the way women in ancient Egypt were thought to have entered the afterlife through imagery used by wealthy Egyptians of the time.

► Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern
March 3 through July 23, 2017

The iconic feminist artist Georgia O’Keeffe had her first solo exhibition in the Brooklyn Museum in 1927. Now, a retrospective of her work will pair her paintings and photography with her clothing to reveal her lifelong “commitment to core principles associated with modernism,” the museum says.

► We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85
April 21 through September 17, 2017

An array of paintings, printmaking, performance, fim and video art comprise an exhibit highlighting black radical artists and voices in the 1960s, 70s and 80s that were linked closely with political and social change.

► The Roots of “The Dinner Party”
Opening Oct. 20, 2017

Get a glimpse of rare drawings and ephemera of the history of Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party,” a table of labia-like sculptures created from pottery and textile set on a triangular table and labeled with the names of important women in history. The installation will explore the thought process and evolution of the piece, one of the most recognizable in modern feminist artwork.

The Brooklyn Museum is located at 200 Eastern Parkway in Prospect Heights. For more information about the “Year of Yes,” visit the museum’s exhibition page.