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Betye Saar has been honored as a recipient of the Art Basel Award Medal. The Art Basel Awards are the first global honors dedicated to recognizing and advancing excellence across the contemporary art world — celebrating visionaries spanning the industry whose work is shaping the next generation of cutting-edge artistry. Path-breaking artists, cross-disciplinary creators in fashion, design, music, and performance; curators; institutions; patrons and foundations; writers and journalists; and the specialists behind the scenes, from studio managers to fabricators, are honored in Art Basel’s debut year of its landmark annual award cycle.

By Lauren Gallow

In 2024, Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana permanently installed a glass and granite sculpture called “The Soil You See…” by the artist Wendy Red Star, who grew up on the nearby Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation. The sculpture, which resembles a giant blood-red fingerprint, is inscribed with the names of 50 Apsáalooke chiefs who were coerced by the U.S. government into using their thumbprints to cede their tribal lands. Today, the center’s guided tours incorporate information on the Apsáalooke people.

Roberts Projects is delighted to announce Kehinde Wiley: A Maze of Power at Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat, Morocco. Initiated in 2012, the unprecedented series explores the staging of power through the lens of African heads of state. The portraits reflect the distinctive cultural elements of each state, thus highlighting the immense diversity of the African continent, and reveal the identity of an individual through the double prism of the artist and his model.

Indo-Caribbean artist Suchitra Mattai unravels stories of the past to imagine new futures. In her work, she is deeply influenced by the history of her ancestors, who were brought from India to work as indentured laborers in Guyana. She works with materials that honor the labor of women—including vintage saris, beads, and embroidery—and uses techniques passed down through generations. At the center of the exhibition, Mattai reimagines her grandparents’ home in Guyana, the core of her migration story. From there, a memory journey told through textiles and sculptures spills out into the rest of the gallery.