He makes ethereal and outlandish works.
But China is speckled with outlandish works of official art that vie with even a giant, glow-in-the-dark puffer fish for attention and outrage.
One of his more outlandish works is the "Helicopter String Quartet", an ensemble piece, performed by musicians on four separate helicopters, transmitted via video to listeners on the ground.
Whether he's painting an image of children playing under a hole that opens onto Paradise on the West Bank barrier, mounting his own outlandish works without invitation in leading museums, or leaving a mock Guantanamo Bay prisoner by a ride in Disney Land to scare the daylights out of the citizens of the magic kingdom, Banksy is ever the human question mark.
Those who like their art museums quiet would do well to stay away from the Zimmerli on the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick on Thursday, because an outlandish collaborative work being staged there could be enough to knock the paint off the masterworks.
The outlandish effort worked -- Olson landed a marketing gig in Bloomington, Minn.
It's not outlandish enough to work as slapstick, not intelligent enough to make a comment on the fickleness of immigration policy.
There are outlandish sitcoms that work brilliantly like Father Ted, Reggie Perrin and Arrested Development, but these still have a solid foundation of brilliant, recognisable, yet original characters.
Like other composers of his generation, Mr. Dorman, who turns 36 on Thursday, can make outlandish musical combinations work because he is comfortable with an enormous range of styles, assimilated during a musically omnivorous childhood and adolescence.
After Nixon, no President can take lightly the suggestion, however outlandish, that someone working for him may have sicced the I.R.S. on his political enemies.
Meanwhile, her co-star in Nurse Betty, the American comedian Chris Rock, gave a typically outlandish insight into working with Morgan Freeman.
