Robert Frank’s doom-laden images of America
The photographer’s first and most famous book quickly became a classic, but he would become sceptical about the power of still images
Wolfgang Tillmans has the time of his life at MoMA
The photographer’s seething retrospective at MoMA captures what it was like to be young and carefree after the fall of the Berlin Wall
America the grave – ‘Grief and Grievance’ at the New Museum, reviewed
An exhibition examining Black experience in America is powerful if piecemeal – and is necessarily exhausting
Mane attraction – the star quality of Susan Sontag
For all her flaws – and love of the limelight – Sontag’s commitment to seriousness feels more necessary than ever
David Wojnarowicz’s art is as urgent now as it was in the 1980s
The playful, elegaic and militant qualities of the artist’s work make a powerful impression at the Whitney
It’s the loneliness of Diane Arbus’s images that make them so discomforting today
An exhibition of Diane Arbus’s early work presents curiosities without cabinets
John Berger: a pathfinder who was alive to the present
It was Berger’s ability to listen that made him such an important storyteller