“With my early work,” the Chicago-born artist Judy Chicago once said, “I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses as many women have done.” But Chicago was not one for disguises. In the 1970s, at California State University, in Fresno, she founded the first feminist art program in the U.S. In that same decade, her installation The Dinner Party—a triangular table with 39 place settings, each one commemorating a female martyr, goddess, activist, or artist—created uproar (each plate was a uniquely stylized vulva). “Herstory,” Chicago’s first museum survey in New York, traces her career through six decades of bold work in many mediums. And don’t miss “The City of Ladies,” on the Fourth Floor, an exhibition-within-the-exhibition, where the works of pioneers such as Simone de Beauvoir, Hilma af Klint, and Artemisia Gentileschi hang together. —Elena Clavarino