Frieze New York 2018—the seventh edition of the 'London import—has delivered on its promises for this year. From the commissioned Black Dada Flag (Black Lives Matter) by Adam Pendleton, which will fly over Randall’s Island Park until November to the Live program that features Lara Schnitger’s Suffragette City,  a hybrid performance (above) in its New York debut, the fair has become as much a cultural meeting place as it is a marketplace. Photo above, © and courtesy Paula Alyce Scully.

Adrienne Edwards, Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum and the new Live section at Frieze, said “I hope that together these projects will help us imagine what is possible today through the poetics of protest,” adding that breaking down boundaries between galleries and the street, the artist and their audience might “open up conversations about the role of art in today’s society.”

Artists featured in the Live section are Renée Green, Alfredo Jaar, Dave McKenzie, Raúl de Nieves with Erik Zajaceskowski, Adam Pendleton, Lara Schnitger, and Hank Willis Thomas. Among the 190+ participating galleries at the fair, feminism, protest and queer aesthetics are everywhere (see Frieze editorials here and preview here) According to Anton Kern Gallery, remaining performances of Lara Schnitger’s Suffragette City  will be Thursday May 3 at 2 and 5 pm; Saturday May 5th at 3 pm.

Frieze New York 2018, Randalls Island Park, NY, is open to the public Friday, May 4 through Sunday, May 6. Info Tickets and transportation by ferry and bus here And tickets to Frieze New York allow for complimentary access to the private view of  Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 (Friday, May 4, 6-7pm) at the Brooklyn Museum and to MoMA PS1’s Night at the Museum, (Saturday, May 5, 8pm-12am) Photos © Peggy Roalf except as noted dart-frieze