BETYE SAAR WINS 2014 MACDOWELL MEDAL

The Los Angeles Times’ Mike Boehm reports that artist Betye Saar will be honored with this year’s Edward MacDowell Medal. The award’s given by the MacDowell Colony in recognition of lifetime achievement. Saar will join an elite roster of honorees that also includes artists like Nan Goldin, Kiki Smith, Robert Frank, Ellsworth Kelly, and Jasper Johns, as well as composer Stephen Sondheim, writer Joan Didion, and architect I. M. Pei. Novelist Michael Chabon—chair of the MacDowell Colony— commended Saar for creating work “as inescapably recognizable as our own broken world . . . mapping it with fierceness, a sense of play and . . . wild accuracy.”