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 | 18 AUG 14

Lady adventurers and the legacies of colonial history

BY Kaelen Wilson-Goldie | 18 AUG 14

How to Write about Africa

BY Sean O'Toole | 18 AUG 14

In defence of irony

BY Lynne Tillman | 13 AUG 14

Cinema, growing up & Richard Linklater’s Boyhood

BY Nick Pinkerton | 13 AUG 14

A new work by jazz pioneer Anthony Braxton

BY Franklin Bruno | 13 AUG 14

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

BY Ellen Mara De Wachter | 13 AUG 14

Trying to make sense of the loss of a friend

BY Travis Jeppesen | 13 AUG 14

Why start a print magazine?

BY Elizabeth Glickfeld | 13 AUG 14

The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

BY Noemi Smolik | 13 AUG 14

Various venues, Dakar, Senegal

Office Baroque Gallery / Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium

13 AUG 14

Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

BY Colin Siyuan Chinnery | 13 AUG 14

Various venues, Germany

BY Mark Prince | 13 AUG 14

Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany

BY Kirsty Bell | 13 AUG 14

Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany

BY Sonja Hornung | 13 AUG 14

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany

BY Pablo Larios | 13 AUG 14

Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland

BY Jason Farago | 13 AUG 14

Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland

BY Amy Sherlock | 13 AUG 14

Gennadius Library, Athens, Greece

BY Anny Shaw | 13 AUG 14

Various venues, Madrid, Spain

BY Sara Knelman | 13 AUG 14

Musée Soulages, Rodez, France

BY Emily Nathan | 13 AUG 14

Various venues, Cuenca, Ecuador

BY Dan Fox | 13 AUG 14

The Commercial, Sydney, Australia

BY Eleanor Ivory Weber | 12 AUG 14

Neon Parc, Melbourne, Australia

BY Kit Wise | 12 AUG 14

BRUNDYN+, Cape Town, South Africa

BY Sean O’Toole | 12 AUG 14

Time-travelling with Pablo Bronstein

BY Charlie Fox | 12 AUG 14

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

BY David Geers | 12 AUG 14

Neue Galerie, New York, USA

BY Ara H. Merjian | 12 AUG 14

Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, USA

BY Scott Roben | 12 AUG 14

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 | 12 AUG 14

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

BY George Pendle | 12 AUG 14

Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, USA

BY Aaron Bogart | 12 AUG 14

Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA

BY Hannah Stamler | 12 AUG 14

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA

BY Ed Schad | 12 AUG 14

Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

BY Jonathan Griffin | 12 AUG 14

Vital materialism and the unsteady march of progress

BY Rahma Khazam | 12 AUG 14

National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Canada

BY Kari Cwynar | 12 AUG 14

Digital pasts and futures meet in the work of Aleksandra Domanović

BY Laura McLean-Ferris | 12 AUG 14

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

BY Chris Fite-Wassilak | 12 AUG 14

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 | 12 AUG 14

Studio Voltaire, London, UK

BY Matthew McLean | 12 AUG 14

Modern Art, London, UK

BY Martin Herbert | 12 AUG 14

Rob Tufnell, London, UK

BY Paul Pieroni | 12 AUG 14

Limoncello, London, UK

BY Mark Prince | 12 AUG 14

MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK

BY Eleanor Nairne | 12 AUG 14

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

BY Matthew De Abaitua AND Ed Atkins | 12 AUG 14

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

BY Barbara Kruger | 12 AUG 14

Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK

BY James Cahill | 12 AUG 14