Art spotlight: 'Collateral Damage: Scenes from a War'

Just opened: Artists have not shirked from confronting the savagery and brutality of wars and their consequences. Over the centuries their images of what we cavalierly call "collateral damage" have alternately shocked, enlightened, comforted and distressed survivors and the civilian population. The 35 images in this show start 200 years ago with this harrowing etching of butchered bodies by Francisco Goya from the Peninsular Wars that ravaged Spain. It includes Otto Dix's 1924 antiwar screed, "Der Krieg," and comes up to date with Daniel Heyman's portraits of tortured prisoners from the Iraqi war. Other pieces are by Honoré Daumier, Käthe Kollwitz, Max Pechstein, Max Beckmann, George Bellows, George Grosz, Pablo Picasso, Jacob Lawrence, David Rathman, Ken Campbell and Stephen Dupont. A sculpture by contemporary British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman will flesh out, as it were, the Goya shown here. This is tough stuff and an essential reminder of the consequences of our collective actions, or lack thereof.