Coney Island apocalypse: drawing on world history and his own American childhood, figurative painter Arnold Mesches has long combined a collage-based esthetic with expressionist color and classically inspired compositions. A traveling show focuses on his "Anomie" series, a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the 20th century.

Art in America | February 1, 2002| | Copyright

Now that the 20th century is behind us, efforts are emerging to make some sense of its bewildering combination of tragedy, villainy, progress, hope and failure. The best of them may be those that acknowledge how events experienced close-up are far more turbulent and uncertain than they seem through the filter of history. Last spring, in a thought-provoking show curated by Sandra Olsen for the Castellani Art Museum in Niagara Falls, N.Y. (an expanded version of a traveling exhibition that originated at the Oregon Jewish Museum, where it was curated by Gerry Snyder), painter ...

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