Betye Saar
"Mojo Rising" features Betye Saar’s ongoing mojo focus, and local artists who are inspired by these ideas to create cultural narratives and engaging objects that challenge normalizing tropes, and reveal practices influenced by Saar’s ceaseless commitment to making, sharing, teaching and encouraging artists in Los Angeles and beyond.
Betye Saar
Mojo Rising, 2020
Single-channel video (8 minutes, 11 second)
Production: jill moniz and the Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery at Cal State LA
© Betye Saar 2020
By Sam Falb
A swirl of power brokers, patrons, and provocateurs collided on the dance floor at MoMA last night.
On Tuesday night in Midtown, the Museum of Modern Art’s annual Party in the Garden returned in full force, honoring artists Betye Saar and Martin Puryear alongside philanthropist Jo Carole Lauder.