Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
By Betye Saar with text by Yinshi Lerman-Tan, Sóla Saar Agustsson, Hilton Als, Tiffany E. Barber, and Ishmael Reed; Foreword by Christina Nielsen
Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, 2025
$29.95
This book documents an installation that Saar, at age 97, created for the Huntington Museum in 2023. Images of the haunting work—a canoe bearing birdcages on wooden chairs and idols with horns on a spiritual journey through a blue night-scape—join essays illuminating Saar’s long career, which combines the offbeat brilliance of multimedia artist Joseph Cornell with Afrocentric soul.
