“I’m the kind of person who recycles materials,” says the assemblage artist Betye Saar, “but I also recycle emotions and feelings.” Saar’s art—found objects arranged in frames, boxes, and tableaux—can seem as homespun as a folktale, but the tale she tells is shadowed by racial and sexual oppression. Now 97, Saar is unveiling Drifting Toward Twilight—a 17-foot-long installation. Combining a vintage canoe with birdcages, antlers, and other ephemera from the Huntington’s grounds, it should be spectacular. —Elena Clavarino