“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,” which opened in 2023 at the New Museum, in New York City, traces Chicago’s career through six decades of bold work in many mediums. New to the LUMA Arles incarnation is a revival of Chicago’s early groundbreaking Feather Room and a newly commissioned Smoke Sculpture. —Elena Clavarino