Betye Saar, influential assemblage artist who ‘liberated’ Aunt Jemima, dies at 99

Betye Saar, a Los Angeles artist who transformed collections of bigoted bric-à-brac — Sambo dolls, ceramic mammies and crude renderings of pickaninnies — into potent works of assemblage that mined…

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A profile of artist Betye Saar on the occasion of her 100th birthday and costume design show at Roberts Projects

Betye Saar wears a Gucci kaftan, the artist’s own archival “Mojo necklace” from 1974 and Patricia Von Muslin jewelry. This story is part of Image’s May Momentum issue, which looks…

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