Amid the din of cynical populists the voices of these fragile communities are needed more than ever

We talk to the art market specialist Melanie Gerlis about the fair, to Doris Salcedo and Ragnar Kjartansson about their shows, Massimiliano Gioni about the New Museum’s video-art pop-up in London—and Louisa Buck discusses Frieze's special Social Work section. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Noah Charney on amazing works that were always meant to be temporary

The former YBA has laid off 50 staff and bought a £40m studio in Soho, opening next year

The theme of Imagined Borders addresses the fraught relationship with the North as well as global tensions surrounding migration and identity

While international exhibitor numbers are up again, the Midwest collectors base proves elusive

Collaboration in Almaty is expected to be long-term, but no money is changing hands

The contemporary art fair makes it mark with a ten year lease on Marx Halle

Destruction of Jason deCaires Taylor's Coralarium installation came after condemnation by local Muslim leaders and politicians

Collectors’ private museum, scrutinised by US Senate for limited access, could draw 100,000 people a year

The power of Black artists resonates at the Brooklyn Museum, while Medieval monsters lurk at the Morgan Library

New works by Barbara Kruger, Tania Bruguera and Awol Erizku will be presented in Canadian museum's first year

Edmund de Waal's porcelain creations will open a dialogue with the historic art and furnishings and 'will not shock', curator says

Medics in Berlin have not identified substance but are confident Russian will recover

Contrasting Zhang Xiaogang with a young 'post-passport' generation

The rise in popularity of the green vegetable mirrors that of contemporary art

Mika Rottenberg’s surreal world lands in London’s newest space, Goldsmiths CCA, while the “king of cling” Azzedine Alaïa captivates at the Design Museum

Rainer Opolka’s bronze sculptures, some making Nazi salutes, on show in Chemnitz for one day only

Salma Hayek, Tobey Maguire and Serena Williams are among those on the fair’s host committee, while Gagosian, Zwirner, Hauser & Wirth and Ropac will exhibit

Though not as dire as first thought, visitor figures for the museum's contemporary shows have still been poor

With a grant from the Art for Justice Fund, Xaviera Simmons draws inspiration from Jacob Lawrence’s Migrations series

“Women are particularly affected by this precarious situation,” study’s author says

Fund-raisers have so far raised €300,000 of €800,000 needed

The polarising ex-army leaker will discuss artificial intelligence, LGBTQ rights and the links between digital technology and democracy

Maria Alyokhina had spent two years in prison for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred”

A project at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto challenges the public to help restore a Baghdad art college’s collection

The artist, who is of Tlingit and Unangax descent, confronts the traumatic past in deeply affecting ways but does not wallow in it

Show at Lebanon's Aishti Foundation is last in a trilogy exploring its vast private collection before its first solo presentation of Albert Oehlen

The space is latest artistic casualty in the city's gentrification campaign

Japanese artist became embroiled in #Metoo movement over treatment of long-time model