CLOSE UP: AMERICA YEAR ZERO
Ara Osterweil on Kenneth Anger’s Fireworks (1947)
Under the Cover
Michelle Kuo and Stuart Comer on “Signals: How Video Transformed the World”
Hollywood Babylon
David Zwirner goes West
HER OWN RISK
Michael Ned Holte on Barbara T. Smith’s “The Way to Be”
No Agency
Hiji Nam on Frieze week in New York
OPENINGS: FRIDA ORUPABO
Portia Malatjie on Frida Orupabo
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PRINT April 2016
Yve-Alain Bois
Yve-Alain Bois
To fully honor the legacy of Ellsworth Kelly, whose centennial falls on Wednesday, is not only to remember his singular and deceptively clear-cut contributions to art, but to remain open to life’s vibrant, infinite particularities. After all, Kelly saw his elating colors and shapes as residing “forever in the present,” as Yve-Alain Bois reminds us in a tribute to the late artist published in Artforum’s January 2016 issue. Bois, a leading scholar of Kelly’s work as well as his dear friend, nominates him as “the last happy modernist,” his art a “rock of optimism no matter how grim the world becomes