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Betye Saar, Woman with Two Parrots, mixed media collage on paperboard, 12 x 24 5/8". Crocker Art Museum, gift of Emily Leff and James Davis III, 2017.67.7. © Betye Saar / Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California.Legends from Los Angeles
In recognition of the legacy of Betye Saar, as well as her daughters Lezley and Alison, Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, presents Legends from Los Angeles. The exhibition features approximately 20 paintings, prints and mixed media works by the Saar women, all from or promised to the Crocker Art Museum. Running January 24 through August 15, 2021, the show intentionally coincides with Black History Month, Women’s History Month and Mother’s Day.

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Annie Lopez, The Liberation of Glycerine, cyanotype on tamale wrapper paper, thread, zipper, and metal buckle, 51 x 48 x 52"; Collection of Eric Jungermann; Photo by Katie Jones-Weinert, Tucson Museum of Art.Paper Routes
The National Museum of Women in the Arts holds the sixth installment in its Women to Watch exhibition series, Paper Routes, which showcases a diversity of contemporary women artists working in paper. Presented every two to three years, the series is a dynamic collaboration between the NMWA and participating outreach committees. Paper Routes features mixed media works from artists across the country and the world, including Elizabeth Alexander, Natasha Bowdoin, Paola Podestá Martí, Hyeyoung Shin, Elisabetta Di Maggio, Julia Goodman and many others.

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Artist Hank Willis Thomas’ and MASS Design Group’s 22-foot bronze sculpture The Embrace, the 2019 winning design for a new Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on the Boston Common. King Boston.Monuments Project
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently announced a major five-year grant effort called the Monuments Project, with the goal of rebuilding major public monuments across the United States. The $250 million grant aims to transform the way our country’s histories are told in public spaces by reimagining commemorative spaces in a way that celebrates and affirms the historical contributions of the many diverse communities within the nation. Mellon’s quarter-billion-dollar plan builds on two years of monument grantmaking.

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Pace Gallery’s new Palm Beach, Florida, location. Pace Gallery opens new location
With locations across the globe, Pace Gallery, known for showcasing
20th- and 21st-century artwork, opens a new Palm Beach, Florida, space this November. The gallery will celebrate the opening of the location, which will be situated within Palm Beach’s Royal Poinciana Plaza, with an exhibition of works by California-based artist James Turrell, followed by a series of solo and group shows by artists from across the gallery’s program. —