In addition to The Dinner Party, and Global Feminisms, this is another exhibit in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center. Her’s the blurb from the Musuem.
This exhibition is dedicated to powerful female
pharaohs, queens, and goddesses from Egyptian history. The central
object of the exhibition is an important granite head from the Brooklyn
Museum collection of Hatshepsut, the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth
Dynasty (1539–1292 b.c.), and one of the 39 women represented with a plate at The Dinner Party.
Hatshepsut is featured alongside other women and goddesses from
Egyptian history, including queens Cleopatra, Nefertiti, and Tiye and
the goddesses Sakhmet, Mut, Neith, Wadjet, Bastet, Satis, and
Nephthys—many of whom are featured on The Dinner Party’s tiles.
By incorporating multiple objects from the Museum’s extraordinary
Egyptian collection, the exhibition encourages viewers to make visual
and historical connections with the Museum’s long-term installation Egypt Reborn, which has additional objects on view pertaining to Pharaohs, Queens, and Goddesses.