The 100 Years Show

99-year-old Carmen Herrera - a spunky, distinctive Cuban-American painter - usually treats herself to an afternoon scotch, but then it's back to work, painting radiant, disciplined canvases using straight lines and two colors. Ignored for much of the past century, her work is finally being acknowledged as a precursor to influential styles like minimalism, geometric and modernist abstraction, and concrete painting. Now recognized as "the discovery of the decade" by The Observer, she's a fitting reminder of how elite art historians and critics have overlooked some great artists because of their gender, ethnicity, or nationality. Better late than never. (Florida Film Festival)