The opening of the Paris Olympics last week also marked the unveiling of a new public artwork by American artist Alison Saar in the Charles-Aznavour Garden on the city’s famed Avenue des ...

Alison Saar’s sculptures of Black women are like sentinels. Standing or enthroned, their job is to keep watch. And in some uncommonly disconcerting instances, to be on the lookout while suspended from ...

Alison Saar has been making art her whole life. “I say it was kind of like my first language,” she tells Hyperallergic. Raised by artists Richard and Betye Saar, she and her sisters “were always ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Celebrated African American artist Betye Saar is now in her 90s and still hard at work. She has two major shows dedicated to her distinctive pieces created largely from found objects. Betye Saar is ...

Alison Saar’s sculptures of Black women are like sentinels. Standing or enthroned, their job is to keep watch. And in some uncommonly disconcerting instances, to be on the lookout while suspended from ...