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
Whether it’s the exact way a star collapses after having a black hole shot into it, or stemming an underground coal-seam fire with liquid cement, in ‘Hold Up the Sky’, Liu is dazzlingly plausible