Betye Saar turns 100 on July 30, but she plans to start her day the same way as always: in the studio. In a small, light-filled room near the top of the Laurel Canyon home where she’s lived since 1962 ...

The sketchbooks reveal how Saar's practice has evolved over time, and how time itself is a major thread in her work. Betye Saar’s exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), titled ...

Betye Saar “Spirit Catcher” (1977), mixed media, 45 x 18 x 18 inches (Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California) For decades, Betye Saar has stunned viewers with her altars ...

Betye Saar, the groundbreaking assemblage artist who helped redefine American art and kickstart the Black women’s movement, died Monday. Throughout a prolific career that spanned decades, Saar brought ...

Betye Saar, “Black Girl’s Window” (1969), Wooden window frame with paint, cut-and-pasted printed and painted papers, daguerreotype, lenticular print, and plastic figurine, 35 3/4 × 18 × 1 1/2″ (the ...

Betye Saar, Uneasy Dancer installation view featuring “The Alpha and the Omega” (2013–16) (all photos by Roberto Marossi and courtesy Fondazione Prada) MILAN — One of the aspects of being human that ...

Betye Saar, "Female Doll with Two Heads Above" (2020), watercolor on paper, 12 x 9 inches (Courtesy Roberts Projects, Los Angeles; photo by Robert Wedemeyer) For artist Betye Saar, dolls are much more ...

The artist Betye Saar lives less than two miles from the bars, billboards, and bustle of Los Angeles’s Sunset Boulevard, but her home, in Laurel Canyon, seems far removed from Sunset’s gleaming ...

The four-hundred-and-fifty-million-dollar expansion of the Museum of Modern Art is complete. One afternoon during its opening week, a polite crowd queued on Fifty-third Street. Three tourists, hands ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist Betye Saar at her home in Laurel Canyon a month before her 100th birthday. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Betye Saar ...