Judy Chicago has been interviewed by Judith Richards for the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art, which has posted it online. To access the interview, please visit Oral history interview with Judy Chicago, 2009 Aug. 7-8, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

"Party Girl" by Ariel Levy
The New Yorker, August 9, 2010

In fall 2010, Prestel Publishers will publish Face to Face, a new book about Frida Kahlo by Judy Chicago and Frances Borzello, a British art historian, which situates Kahlo's work in the history of female self-portraiture, a context into which she has been rarely placed. In conjunction with the publication of this refreshingly new view of Kahlo, Judy Chicago will present book events around the country. Please check back regularly as dates and locations for the book tour will be posted soon.

Frida Kahlo: Face to Face in Brooklyn
October 3, 2010, 2:00-4:00 pm
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org

Frida Kahlo: Face to Face in Washington, DC
October 24, 2010, 1:00 pm
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005
http://www.nmwa.org

Frida Kahlo: Face to Face in Chicago
November 4, 2010, 6:00 pm
Chicago Public Library
Chicago, IL
http://www.chipublib.org

Frida Kahlo: Face to Face in Santa Fe
November 14, 2010, 3:30-5:00 pm
Inn at Loretto, sponsored by Garcia Street Books
211 Old Santa Fe Trail
Santa Fe, NM 87501
http://www.innatloretto.com

Frida Kahlo: Face to Face in San Diego
December 8, 2010
San Diego Museum of Art
1450 El Prado
San Diego, CA 92101
http://www.sdmart.org

Frida Kahlo: Face to Face in San Francisco
December 12, 2010, 4:00 pm
San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum, co-sponsored by Yerba Buena
736 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
http://www.thecjm.org

Frida Kahlo: Face to Face in Los Angeles
December 15, 2010
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 North Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
http://www.skirball.org

Working with a stellar art education curriculum team headed by Dr. Marilyn Stewart of Kutztown University Judy Chicago and Through the Flower (the non-profit arts organization founded by Chicago over 30 years ago) have created a comprehensive K-12 Dinner Party Curriculum. The curriculum is available as a series of free, downloadable pdf files on Through the Flower's website. For more information, contact Through the Flower.
http://www.throughtheflower.org

Founded by Jack Lemon and under the direction of master printer, Steve Campbell, Landfall Press and Judy Chicago have embarked on a multi-year print project, "Retrospective in a Box", which will reinterpret in a new, fresh way some of her most accomplished images. Although the complete suite of seven prints will not be done until 2011, the first three prints are completed--Into the Darkness, Signing the Dinner Party, and The Crowning. They are available individually for $3,500 plus shipping.
For information, please write info@judychicago.com.

Into the Darkness is based upon a small drawing from her landmark "Through the Flower" series, a group of images intended to break through the 'flower' of femininity into a vast space, which might be said to be a metaphor for Chicago's career.

The first and only print related to The Dinner Party in this series, this image reinterprets one of the woven Entryway Banners. It not only incorporates the rich colors of The Dinner Party (red, gold and black) but also evinces a textured surface that emulates the woven fabric of the banners. Intended to commemorate the triangular "sign" of The Dinner Party (also a symbol of the goddess), this print is intended to remind viewers of the rich history of women embodied by "The Dinner Party".

The third print in this series (which is currently being editioned) is the Return of the Butterfly, based upon one of the five drawings in the Rejection Quintet, 1974, which was featured in the groundbreaking exhibition WACK: Art and the Feminist Revolution and is in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

This work is inspired by one of the base images from Chicago's collaborative textile-based series, The Birth Project, completed between 1985-1988. The Crowning makes direct reference to the moment during the birth process when the child's head emerges.

This print is inspired by a set of images created as part of Chicago's series, Powerplay (1982-1987), which examined the construct of a masculinity in drawings, paintings, sculptures, weavings, cast paper and bronze.

The Crime of Silence is based on an image from The Holocaust Project depicting two survivors emerging from the bombed out crematorium at Birkenau. The work also makes reference to Dante's Inferno.