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Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

May 2024

  • Women at a production line in a factory in a photo from To Let You Understand by Franki Raffles

    Franki Raffles and Joanne Coates review – studies of women and class show how little things have changed

    Two exhibitions – one by a Marxist, lesbian, feminist active in the 80s and the other by a modern working-class artist – reveal the intersectionality of the female experience across space and time

July 2023

  • Seamlessly extends the relief into real space … Michael Rakowitz: The Waiting Gardens of the North.

    Michael Rakowitz review – a new hanging garden of hope and yearning

    The Iraqi-American’s intricately-labelled planters and models form a repository for stories on everything from the destruction of Palestinian olives to homesick migrants

May 2023

  • Larry Achiampong: Wayfinder.

    Larry Achiampong: Wayfinder review – a big-hearted meander through the immigrant experience

    Poignant and inclusive, the British-Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong’s first major solo show roams through class, race and the English landscape, always circling back to his own family

September 2020

  • ... from Against Time by Huma Bhabha

    Huma Bhabha/Christina Ramberg review – terrifying totems eye a crumbling world

    Bhabha’s eerie monuments create a creeping unease, while a group show riffs on female dress from a wooden skirt to a ring for the Statue of Liberty

June 2020

  • Barbara Walker, Boundary II (2000)

    Art Weekly newsletter
    An everyday archive and a virtual trip to Rembrandt's Amsterdam – the week in art

    Socially distanced exhibition slots are available for Ella Kruglyanskaya and Jim Dine, while online offerings include Amazonian artist Abel Rodriguez – all in your weekly dispatch

March 2020

  • End of an era ... Richard Alston’s Voices and Light Footsteps.

    Step in time: how to save the legacy of dance from being lost in history

    While Richard Alston’s company hang up their dance shoes, archivists and choreographers are grasping at ways to immortalise an inherently slippery art form

January 2020

  • Richard Brooks

    Can we rescue the arts - and arts funding - from perennial elitism?

    Richard Brooks
    Two new reports suggest the arts still have an elitism problem. But Gateshead’s Baltic shows how it can be done

November 2019

  • ‘I came face-to-face with a level of horror that I had not previously comprehended’ … Judy Chicago

    Judy Chicago's extinction rebellion: 'I went face-to-face with a new level of horror'

  • Judy Chicago Study for How Will I Die? #2 from The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction, 2014 Prismacolor and white tempera on black Arches 9 x 12 in (22.86 x 30.48 cm) © Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Photo © Donald Woodman/ARS, New York Courtesy of the artist; Salon 94, New York; and Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco

    Judy Chicago review – a soul-baring showdown with the grim reaper

February 2019

  • Detail of Poetry Despite/Music Despite (Eternal War Requiem) by Aaron Hughes.

    Pubs, K-pop and Wilfred Owen: Baltic Artists’ award 2019 review

    Baltic, Gateshead
    The winners of the prize for up-and-coming artists – Ingrid Pollard, Kang Jungsuck and Aaron Hughes – take on war, racism and reality itself

August 2018

  • Heather Phillipson, artist

    Autumn arts preview 2018
    Heather Phillipson: 'We torture eggs. They're potential lives'

    The vegan artist has put eggs on the tube and is about to place a dollop of cream on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square – but first there are augmented-reality bird faeces to attend to

December 2017

  • Detail of a shot from Wolfgang Tillmans’ Tate Modern show.

    Best culture 2017
    Adrian Searle's top 10 art shows of 2017

    Chris Ofili stitched up Eden, Rodney Graham went stilt-walking, Picasso biked to the bullfight and Rachel Whiteread poured herself a hot water bottle. But the year belonged to the unsettling, eruptive visions of Wolfgang Tillmans

October 2017

  • Leila Akhmetova plays ‘desolate notes’ on the violin as part of Susan Philipsz’s A Single Voice.

    Susan Philipsz: A Single Voice review – sci-fi sound and emotional mystery from a visionary artist

    The Turner prize-winner’s hypnotic new installation uses a camera, a violinist and a series of speakers to shed a wondrous light on music’s science and sorcery

September 2017

  • Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lobster Telephone (red), 1938, by Salvador Dalí and Edward James, the Lego House

    Autumn arts preview 2017
    Dalí, Duchamp, Basquiat and beards: the best art of autumn 2017

    Modigliani seduces, the Turner hits Hull, Rebecca Warren shakes up St Ives – and Gilbert and George have a close shave with facial hair – we pick the season’s most eye-popping art exhibitions

June 2017

  • Get a grip … work by Toni Schmale.

    Baltic Artists' award 2017 review – big balloons and fetish steel get too close for comfort

  • Summer arts preview 2017

    Summer arts preview 2017
    Summer 2017's finest art, design and photography

March 2017

  • Rodney Graham
Actor/Director, 1954
2013
© Rodney Graham
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

    Rodney Graham: That’s Not Me review – starring role in his own method-acting dramas

  • Rodney Graham at the Baltic arts centre in Gateshead.

    Drugged, kidnapped and cast away: the funny, disturbing obsessions of Rodney Graham

November 2016

  • Monica Bonvicini Light Me Black 2009 Installation view, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead

    Monica Bonvicini review – a body blow of a show

  • Monica Bonvicini, Satisfy Me Flat, 2009.

    Monica Bonvicini review – S&M gear has kinks ironed out

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