October is Black History Month. The 2025 theme is Standing Firm in Power and Pride, in tribute to “the resilience, strength and unwavering commitment to progress that defines the Black community ...

‘Heart of a Wanderer’ has a softer edge than the explicitly political work that made Saar’s name, but it has an edge all the same. At the core of “Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer” at the Gardner ...

Betye Saar is an assemblage artist who calls herself a conjurer, a recycler. In a way, her own heritage is a collage: African, Irish, American Indian. Born in Los Angeles back in 1926, Saar still ...

LOS ANGELES — The artist Betye Saar lives up three flights of stairs in a house with a pink door, tucked into a Laurel Canyon hillside. She has lived in the canyon, one of few truly woodsy enclaves in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Betye Saar, Spread from Mexico sketchbook, June 1975. Gouache, watercolor, ...

At 95-years-old, Betye Saar (b. 1926, Los Angeles) has done–again–what even fine art grad students in their 20s find difficult. She has said something fresh. In “Black Doll Blues,” a new series of ...

INSPIRATION reveals the magic and influence of craft. Featuring the Saar family (Betye Saar, Alison Saar, and Maddy Leeser), Simon Rodia and Watts Towers, Diedrick Brackens, Ayumi Horie, Suzanne Thao, ...

B.A. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, Graduate Studies at California State University, Long Beach, CA; University of, Southern California; and California ...

The art gallery scene here continues to expand: Culver City’s Roberts Projects is relocating to a new, triple-in-size location in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, punctuating how ...

The 97-year-old artist’s newest works reflect her decades-long interest in cultural artifacts and self-emancipation. By Evan Nicole Brown Many artists are dimming the lights of their museum shows, for ...