ASSEMBLY at Frieze New York: Alfredo Jaar

Driven by an enduring fascination with acoustic arts, the LA-based artist explores the spatial and material dimensions of sound

Curators, peers and former colleagues pay tribute to ‘the friendliest Black artist in America’

The Executive Director of Spelman College Museum of Fine Art selects powerful paintings, sculpture and prints by Jack Whitten, June Clark and Mary Lovelace O'Neal, amongst others 

The spiritual quests of the 20th-century poets Antonin Artaud, René Daumal and Arthur Rimbaud are transmuted into a sonic landscape at Centre Pompidou

From Lorraine O’Grady’s photocollages from the 1990s at Alexander Gray Associates to Kiyan Williams’s deep-fried American Flags at Lyles & King, these are the must-see shows

David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards’s biennial documents the power of the individual imagination within imperfect nation-state borders

At Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, the artist's photography is a personalized window into the material effects of social inequity

Watch Even Myself Knows That Too (Journal Dub) (2021), part of Frieze London's programme of performance curated by Languid Hands

As part of the Vision & Justice tribute at Frieze New York, we salute leading artists, writers, thinkers and activists who have contributed to the project and its mission