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Rosenthal's attractive catalogue for these memento mori from his 13 international Cassandras gives the exhibition invaluable context and strategy, especially given the apologia passing for notes on the gallery walls. Visually, it is the Royal Academy's boxed-set Black Album, and in some ways exceeds the art it describes. Alongside a CV are photographs of other works by each artist, followed by stills of their Apocalyptic exhibit. This can have a strange effect: Schneider's assemblage suddenly appears cinematic, while the films of Chris Cunningham, of Bjork and Aphex Twin video fame, and Mike Kelley become necessarily photographic. And there is a typically overblown introductory essay by Rosenthal, which justifies his idiosyncratic curatorial conceit. Intended as a bifocal survey incorporating history and the post-millennial present, Apocalypse proves not so much a sensation as a curate's egg. --David Vincent
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