Writing and Research on Art, Politics, and the History of Culture
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
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.
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.
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.
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
