Beryl Cook is not considered a serious artist. This is always a risky judgment to make: who knows what is or is not serious, what will or will not be taken seriously one day. We might ask what serious means nowadays; it can mean nothing more than expensive. In any case, Cook's fans and collectors know what they like and know what they want, and many of them have come a long way to visit the Baltic, where they might also be alarmed by Maurizio Cattelan's gigantic cat's skeleton on the top floor, and another strange and funny exhibition about summer holidays spent taking mud-baths in Ukraine. It is the silly season at the Baltic.
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