GETTING SMART
hannah baer, Mario Carpo, and Zoë Hitzig reflect on the uses of AI
Hard Time
Jordan Cronk on the 76th Cannes Film Festival
![Rosemarie Trockel, Ohne Titel (“Es gibt kein unglücklicheres Wesen unter der Sonne als einen Fetischisten der sich nach einem Frauenschuh sehnt und mit einem ganzen Weib vorlieb nehmen muss” K.K.:F.) (Untitled [“There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman’s shoe and has to settle for the whole woman” K.K.:F.]), 1991, bronze, artificial hair. Installation view, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, 2022. Photo: Frank Sperling. © Rosemarie Trockel/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.](http://www.artforum.com/uploads/upload.002/id25104/featured00_1064x.jpg)
IMPIETY
Lynne Cooke on the art of Rosemarie Trockel
BINARY PLASTIC LANGUAGE
Tina Rivers Ryan on “Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age”
No Agency
Hiji Nam on Frieze week in New York
Under the Cover
Michelle Kuo and Stuart Comer on “Signals: How Video Transformed the World”
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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