Issue 181
September 2016

The September issue of frieze celebrates the magazine’s 25th anniversary with three exclusively commissioned covers by internationally celebrated artist Sara Cwynar, Rosemarie Trockel and Chris Ofili.

The issue also features our selection of the 25 most influential artworks of the last 25 years, including works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Wolfgang Tillmans and Kara Walker, interviews with critics Li Xianting and Hal Foster, a roundtable with artists Carlos Motta, Mario Garcia Torres and Fernanda Brenner and a special artist’s project by Gary Panter.

From this issue

Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany

BY Elisa R. Linn |

The designer and curator discusses his influences, from fashion to film

BY Duro Olowu |

Art and the culture of apology

BY Negar Azimi |

Hal Foster and Ben Lerner discuss criticism, poetry, painting and what it means to despise the thing you love most

BY Hal Foster AND Ben Lerner |

A quarter century of frieze;a quarter century of lessons

BY Jennifer Higgie, Dan Fox AND Jörg Heiser |

Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden

BY Nathaniel Budzinski |

To celebrate frieze’s quarter century, the editors choose 25 key artworks: one for each year of the magazine’s existence

To celebrate frieze’s quarter century, the editors choose 25 key artworks: one for each year of the magazine’s existence

To celebrate frieze’s quarter century, the editors choose 25 key artworks: one for each year of the magazine’s existence

To celebrate frieze’s quarter century, the editors choose 25 key artworks: one for each year of the magazine’s existence

To celebrate frieze’s quarter century, the editors choose 25 key artworks: one for each year of the magazine’s existence

To celebrate frieze’s quarter century, the editors choose 25 key artworks: one for each year of the magazine’s existence

A major retrospective reveals Bruce Conner’s reach beyond the field of experimental cinema

BY Nick Pinkerton |

Trying to make sense of it all

BY Olivia Laing |

Boris Groys on 25 years of contemporary art in Eastern Europe

BY Boris Groys |

Curator Fernanda Brenner and artists Mario García Torres, Carlos Motta and Amalia Pica discuss what Latin American art means to them

Thoughts on two and a half decades of Photoshop

BY Emily King |

Andrew Durbin discusses the books that have influenced him

BY Andrew Durbin |

Critic and curator Li Xianting speaks to Carol Yinghua Lu about tradition, change and leaving the art world

BY Carol Yinghua Lu |

Are we evolving from a collector-driven art world to an audience-driven one?

BY Daniel Baumann |

The return of Pee-wee Herman’s queer carnivalesque 

BY Charlie Fox |

Xippas, Paris, France

BY Devika Singh |

Three new exhibitions from Lena Henke, Yngve Holen, and Anne Imhof

BY Laura McLean-Ferris |

Josh Lilley, London, UK

BY Harry Thorne |

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, Hauser & Wirth, London, and Massimo de Carlo, Milan

BY Matthew McLean |

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia

BY Tom Melick |

The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, USA

BY Evan Moffitt |

Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland

BY Bean Gilsdorf |

Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil

BY Camila Belchior |

Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland

BY Abigail Winograd |

Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

BY Kate Sutton |

Para Site and Connecting Space, Hong Kong

BY Cristina Sanchez-Kozyreva |

Etablissement d’en face, Brussels, Belgium

BY Eleanor Ivory Weber |

Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Australia

BY Sophie Knezic |

Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

BY Gemma Tipton |

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

BY Jonathan Griffin |

White Cube, London, UK

BY Alice Butler |

Various venues, Zurich, Switzerland

BY Christy Lange |

MoMA PS1, New York, The Studio Museum, Harlem, and ICA Philadelphia 

BY Evan Moffitt |

Annely Juda Fine Art & The Mayor Gallery, London

BY Tim Smith-Laing |

Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, USA

BY Jay Murphy |

Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal

BY Barbara Casavecchia |

Jenny’s, Los Angeles, USA

BY Travis Diehl |

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

BY Declan Long |

Real Fine Arts, Brooklyn, USA

BY Louisa Elderton |

Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, France

BY Lauren Elkin |

Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada

BY Sara Knelman |

Studio_Leigh, London, UK

BY Chris Fite-Wassilak |

Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK

BY Isobel Harbison |

Ramiken Crucible, New York, USA

BY David Everitt Howe |

Fondazione Memmo, Rome, Italy

BY Isobel Harbison |

Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, USA

BY Caille Millner |

Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

BY Sean O'Toole |

Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil

BY Kiki Mazzucchelli |

Studio Voltaire, London, UK

BY Nina Power |

Shanghai Chi K11 Art Museum, China

BY Andrew Stooke |