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 ...

As Rebecca Black once said, “Gotta get down on Tuesday.” Well, perhaps that wasn’t the original lyric, but it certainly felt ...

Betye Saar with Black dolls from her collection, 2025 (photo Tracye Saar-Cavanaugh, courtesy the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California) Betye Saar has been accumulating ephemera — ...

Few artists have had careers as storied as Betye Saar’s. Her recently opened exhibition, “Betye Saar: Call and Response,” on view through January 31 at the Morgan Library and Museum, makes that ...

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 ...

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 ...

This past fall's annual gala at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was a star-studded event, with dozens of celebrities gathered to honor someone not often found on red carpets. John Legend called ...

One of the most searing artistic experiences I’ve ever had came courtesy of Alison Saar in 2017. The Los Angeles artist was part of a group show of Black female sculptors titled “Signifying Form” at ...

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 ...

The Los Angeles-based artist Alison Saar has been selected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the City of Paris to create a new public artwork for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. The ...

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 ...