Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

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

Adrian Searle

20, Jul, 2023 @2:28 PM

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

Laura Cumming

28, May, 2023 @12:00 PM

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

Hannah Clugston

22, Sep, 2020 @8:01 AM

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

Jonathan Jones

19, Jun, 2020 @2:46 PM

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

Lyndsey Winship

12, Mar, 2020 @10:12 AM

Will Arts Council England give funding power to the people? | Richard Brooks

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

Richard Brooks

26, Jan, 2020 @8:59 AM

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

She’s spent half a century fighting male ‘arrogance’ in the art world. Now 80, the spray gun-wielding American’s latest work is a howl of rage at what we’re doing to the planet

Hettie Judah

27, Nov, 2019 @11:06 AM

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

This stunning show leads us on a fiercely feminist journey from Earth’s creation to a looming ecological armageddon

Hannah Clugston

15, Nov, 2019 @3:54 PM

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

Hannah Clugston

19, Feb, 2019 @4:05 PM

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

Tim Jonze

27, Aug, 2018 @2:00 PM

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

Adrian Searle

12, Dec, 2017 @6:40 PM

Susan Philipsz: A Single Voice – sci-fi sound and emotional mystery

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

Jonathan Jones

22, Oct, 2017 @2:00 PM