Check out Judy Chicago's awesome "A Butterfly for Brooklyn" from Saturday night! Thank you to our wonderful crew and sponsors for making the show happen! 

Head over to the New York Times ArtBeat to read all about the event. http://goo.gl/bmtOds

Updated with new photos, please see below.

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Fireworks come in all sorts of scintillating varieties—there are the normal ones, the rainy ones, the crackly ones. Sometimes they form simple images like lopsided smiley faces and off-kilter hearts, massive designs drawn by the hand of some invisible but vaguely stupid child. They don't usually look like vaginas. (Don't Google "vagina fireworks," it won't get you where you think it will.)

Sensing the lack of "feminist" fireworks displays, artist Judy Chicago—best known for her work "The Dinner Party," in which plates are adorned with images of female genitalia—has gone ahead and created one, set to go off in Prospect Park's Long Meadow on April 26. Chicago waffles on whether the images in her work are to be interpreted as vaginas or butterflies, but this is America and we will see a vagina where we want to, damn it, whether it's an actual butterfly or a peculiarly shaped almond or a broken tire iron.

“The butterfly imagery is very basic to 'The Dinner Party,' so I kind of like that idea of that form getting out of the museum, escaping the confines of the plates and liberating itself into the air,” Chicago told DNAinfo.
The installation, called "A Butterfly for Brooklyn," will consist of a 20-minute "fusion of color and dazzling visual effects" in the park's Long Meadow. Chicago has a long history of working with pyrotechnics in her art, though with "hundreds and hundreds" of fireworks, 1,200 road flares and 1,600 feet of LED lights, she said this installation will be her most ambitious to date.

The show will start at 7:30 p.m. Check the Prospect Park Alliance for more information.

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We arrived at Judy Chicago's hotel room expecting to be greeted by a handler or assistant, but were surprised to find that the soon-to-be 75 year-old artist answered the door herself. She was wearing a sweatshirt from Pyro Spectaculars, the fireworks engineers working with her on her upcoming large-scale performance piece in Prospect Park, A Butterfly for Brooklyn. The sweatshirt was the same sort of baggy, pastel memento worn by women of her age to commemorate a trip to Las Vegas or Fort Lauderdale—but instead, this one had a small embroidery of fireworks over the heart.

 A Butterfly for Brooklyn is the capstone event of what Chicago refers to as her year-long "national retrospective." This year, she has shows at the Mana Contemporary, Harvard's Schlesinger Library, the Palmer Museum in Pennsylvania, the Oakland Museum of California, and several others around the country. "Chicago in L.A.," which just opened at the Brooklyn Museum, is one of the larger and more exciting ones, as it sheds light on Chicago's first 10 years of artistic practice in Los Angeles in the 1960s. It was a time and place where women in art were not taken seriously, and, as Chicago explained, a body of work that her magnum opus The Dinner Party overshadowed.