Review of “Nicolas Carone: What Matters—The Late Paintings”
Around 2007 Nicolas Carone, then 90 years old and legally blind, underwent an extraordinary creative reawakening that lasted until his death in 2010.
Biographies, reviews, essays
With the occasional acknowledgment of the beauty of punctuation.
Nicolas Carone (Current Biography, 2006)
The artist Nicolas Carone has synthesized a breadth of influences—some as remote as Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci, others as intimate as his friends and fellow painters Jackson Pollock and Roberto Matta—to create a body of work that has at times during his decades-long career swerved close to recognizable styles but has never settled comfortably into them
John R. Bolton (Current Biography, 2006)
Bolton’s admirers hailed him as a dedicated and clear-headed reformer, unafraid to challenge a U.N. bureaucracy that is corrupt, profligate, and reflexively hostile to the U.S.—the country that provides the organization with its single largest annual financial contribution—detractors called him a rude, reckless ideologue, an enemy rather than a reformer of the U.N., and a neoconservative determined to throw over decades’ worth of international agreements in a shortsighted display of American power.
John G. Roberts (Current Biography, 2006)
Serious, by all accounts, about the responsibilities and limitations of the law, Roberts is also said to be quick-witted and so socially conservative that he decided against attending Stanford Law School after meeting a university representative who wore sandals.
Ferran Adrià (Current Biography, 2006)
Adrià’s food is often written about as if it were the result of not just an advanced culinary education but a scientific one as well.
Portia Simpson-Miller (Current Biography International, 2006)
Born into a working-class home in rural Jamaica, Portia Simpson-Miller has risen through the political ranks to become her country’s eighth prime minister since it gained independence from Great Britain, in 1962—and the first woman to hold the office