Issue 165
September 2014

The September issue of frieze is out now, featuring Ed Atkins, Pablo Bronstein and Rashid Johnson, as well as all our regular columns and reviews from around the world.

Also featuring: American artist Rashid Johnson reveals to Tom Morton how fiction, spirituality, humour and homage play out in his work.

From this issue

An art education — at what cost?

BY Vivian Sky Rehberg |

Lady adventurers and the legacies of colonial history

BY Kaelen Wilson-Goldie |

How to Write about Africa

BY Sean O'Toole |

In defence of irony

BY Lynne Tillman |

Cinema, growing up & Richard Linklater’s Boyhood

BY Nick Pinkerton |

A new work by jazz pioneer Anthony Braxton

BY Franklin Bruno |

Pressed by the increasing need to generate diverse streams of income, UK art organizations turn to crowdfunding

BY Ellen Mara De Wachter |

Trying to make sense of the loss of a friend

BY Travis Jeppesen |

Why start a print magazine?

BY Elizabeth Glickfeld |

The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

BY Noemi Smolik |

Various venues, Dakar, Senegal

Office Baroque Gallery / Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium

Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

BY Colin Siyuan Chinnery |

Various venues, Germany

BY Mark Prince |

Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany

BY Kirsty Bell |

Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany

BY Sonja Hornung |

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany

BY Pablo Larios |

Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland

BY Jason Farago |

Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland

BY Amy Sherlock |

Gennadius Library, Athens, Greece

BY Anny Shaw |

Various venues, Madrid, Spain

BY Sara Knelman |

Musée Soulages, Rodez, France

BY Emily Nathan |

Various venues, Cuenca, Ecuador

BY Dan Fox |

The Commercial, Sydney, Australia

BY Eleanor Ivory Weber |

Neon Parc, Melbourne, Australia

BY Kit Wise |

BRUNDYN+, Cape Town, South Africa

BY Sean O’Toole |

Time-travelling with Pablo Bronstein

BY Charlie Fox |

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

BY David Geers |

Neue Galerie, New York, USA

BY Ara H. Merjian |

Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, USA

BY Scott Roben |

In the run-up to a major solo exhibition at Chicago’s Renaissance Society, Michael Bracewell considers the work of Mathias Poledna

BY Michael Bracewell |

The artist’s gravestone at Highgate Cemetery was his last and most characteristic work

BY George Pendle |

Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, USA

BY Aaron Bogart |

Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA

BY Hannah Stamler |

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA

BY Ed Schad |

Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

BY Jonathan Griffin |

Vital materialism and the unsteady march of progress

BY Rahma Khazam |

National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Canada

BY Kari Cwynar |

Digital pasts and futures meet in the work of Aleksandra Domanović

BY Laura McLean-Ferris |

Pilar Corrias, Maria Stenfors & Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK

BY Chris Fite-Wassilak |

Timotheus Vermeulen talks to philosopher Rosi Braidotti about the pitfalls of speculative realism

Rashid Johnson talks to Tom Morton about fiction, humour and homage

BY Tom Morton |

Studio Voltaire, London, UK

BY Matthew McLean |

Modern Art, London, UK

BY Martin Herbert |

Rob Tufnell, London, UK

BY Paul Pieroni |

Limoncello, London, UK

BY Mark Prince |

MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK

BY Eleanor Nairne |

A conversation between Ed Atkins and Matthew De Abaitua about the intertwining of art and technology

BY Matthew De Abaitua AND Ed Atkins |

Q. What do you wish you knew? A. How to answer questions in a complex, honest and clever way.

BY Barbara Kruger |

Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK

BY James Cahill |