Back in 1952, when Harold Rosenberg wanted to dish spurious examples of Action painting, he called them “apocalyptic wallpaper.” But a number of nineteenth-century writers saw something more than just decorative in the domestic patterns covering Victorian interiors. Apparently so do some artists, whose maddening, unsettling, repetitive designs paper the walls of the Wexner this summer. Curated by the Wexner’s Donna De Salvo and Annetta Massie, “Apocalyptic Wallpaper” features Robert Gober’s spatially disorienting Forest covering, Virgil Marti’s fluorescent Bullies prints, patterns of derriere imprints in Abigail Lane’s Untitled (Bottom Wallpaper), and—lest we forget who first saw wallpaper as a handy canvas some three decades back—Andy Warhol’s Cow. May 10-Aug. 10

— Ernest Pascucci