None of these is easy, but they share essential qualities: exhilarating draughtsmanship, boldly expressive colour and conceptual ambition.A final room contains some of the explosive works that Kitaj painted after 1994, including the marvellously vituperative "The Killer-Critic Assassinated by his Widower, Even", painted the year he left Britain.
Guo-Qiang's explosive works are more than mere spectacle.
Speculative but potentially explosive work.
The most potentially explosive work took place downstairs.
Ms. Miller fared better in "Unwrap these Flowers" (class of 2013), an explosive work set to pop and electronic songs, and teeming with images of sexually tinged violence.
Ailey had apartheid South Africa in mind when he choreographed this brooding and sometimes explosive work, which ranks among his finest creations.
The first, on April 27, follows a familiar blueprint, setting a popular standard (Shostakovich's wrenching Symphony No. 5) against more challenging modernist material in this case, "Amériques," an explosive work that Varèse completed in 1921, while living in Greenwich Village.
The former's tracks are artful little instrumentals, while the latter makes explosive work out of gunshot sounds; it's all high-gloss, heavily processed electronics that could sit in an art gallery as well as a club.
Who knows how long it will be possible to experience the laid-back elegance of works like "Opal Loop," in which dancers follow enigmatic pathways like loose-limbed visitors from another world, or "Groove and Countermove," a more explosive work, last seen a decade ago?
A poet, playwright and filmmaker, her explosive work detonates her audiences' imaginations.
These days, local graffiti heads are aware of the explosive work Zhang Dali bombed Beijing with a few years back.
