Elliott Carter isn't the only active centenarian artist. As the film critic Nathan Lee pointed out to me, the Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, who made at least one film a year throughout his nineties, turned one hundred a day after Carter. If Carter seems around eighty, this recent video interview with Oliveira shows a man who, amazingly, looks around sixty-five. Perhaps Carter and Oliveira can work together . . . .
Update (12/15): Justin Davidson notes that the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer turned 101 today. What is it about mid-December?
