Thanks to you, I get to meet some pretty curious sorts. Ward Shelly is a New York artist who currently makes paintings (of sorts), drawings and "projects" which are best described as environments. If this were still the 60's, they might have been called Happenings or Performances.
Back to this drawing. They are part timeline, part diagram with a bit of narrative thrown in. And well researched. He has created ones of various parts of contemporary art history, music, science fiction along with this one of Jewish history or at least the diaspora, but that pretty much makes it all of Jewish history, roamers that we are. He worked with both a Judaic and a reform rabbi so that it would be as authentic or accurate as possible.
We spoke for over a half-hour about it and how he crafted it. His is dedicated to the process of this intersection of historical accuracy and interpretation. It is an edition of five unique works in that he hand writes the text over a printed (the color) background. Is it art? David, your mother would find this a distateful question, I know. I found it and his curious devotion to codifying just about any history he finds interesting or relevant entertaining to say the least.