"The Art of the Assemblage: Two Views" is a short film produced for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's 2023 exhibition "Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer."
Celebrated contemporary artist Betye Saar first came to the Gardner as a visitor in 1992 when she received an honorary doctorate degree from Massachusetts College of the Arts. In 1994, she was invited to participate in the "Eye of the Beholder" lecture series held in the Tapestry Room of the historic Palace. According to a subsequent museum publication by the same name, “the Eye of the Beholder series provide[d] an opportunity for audiences to experience art through the eyes (and hearts) of a group of creative people.”
This short video presents an abridged version of Saar’s March 29, 1994, lecture created from the audio recording, still photographs, and the artist’s slides in the Gardner Museum’s archives.
