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Tara Dalbow

  • Arts & Culture Journalist, Contributing Writer, Freelance
Los Angeles
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Enough about her legacy. At 100, Betye Saar just wants to keep making art in L.A.

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By Tara Dalbow
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Betye Saar turns 100 on July 30, but she plans to start her day the same way as always: in the studio. In a small, light-filled room near the top of the Laurel Canyon home where she's lived since 1962, Saar spends the morning filling sketchbooks with watercolors. Symbols that the pioneering assemblage artist has been "remixing" for more than seven decades — stars, moons, eyes, hands — emerge in vibrant washes of magenta, teal and her favored crepuscular blues.
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John Giorno Put Poetry on the Line

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By Tara Dalbow
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Art Review — 5 min read John Giorno, “LIFE IS A KILLER” (2018), acrylic on canvas (photo courtesy Giorno Poetry Systems; all other photos Tara Anne Dalbow/Hyperallergic) LOS ANGELES — Through a sleek, ergonomic handset, the voice of poet Diane di Prima recites “Revolutionary Letter #7” (1971), in which she imagines a million earthworms tunneling under society’s oppressive structure until it falls.
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Family Style

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By Tara Dalbow
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Shannon Cartier Lucy, Bucket of Birds, 2026. Photography by Nik Massey. Image courtesy of Night Gallery and the artist. Earlier this year, Shannon Cartier Lucy’s chickens began dying in her arms. She’d had them for five years, caring for their small, vulnerable bodies with the same careful attention she brings to most aspects of her life. One by one, they went, some from disease, others from old age. “It was profound,” says the painter.
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