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

Baltic, Gateshead
This stunning show leads us on a fiercely feminist journey from Earth’s creation to a looming ecological armageddonJudy Chicago likes to pull the curtain back on things we’d rather keep hidden. The clatter of curtain hoops and the swoosh of material proceeds childbirth, the arrival of death, the examination of a battered body. For Chicago these subjects are to be painted, photographed, sketched, stitched and hung on gallery walls. It seems likely that she’d fi