It’s perhaps fitting that figurative painting – historical bastion of the male artist – should be so confidently ransacked by an artist who endured an artworld that marginalised women
From a retrospective of the late performance artist Chiara Fumai to the exuberant fragility of Lynda Benglis’s sculpture, a guide to the best exhibitions around town
This year’s shortlist champions art as social activism – but the emphatic endorsement from a mega-institution reveals how thin those radical postures really are
