Deborah de Robertis previously got into trouble for revealing her own vagina next to this sensational work that for most of its life was hidden in the private collections of some of the most dirty-minded intellectuals in Paris.
That was when she discovered the sensational work of the Conceptual artists Chris Burden, who, for one piece, had a friend shoot him in the arm with a rifle, and Adrian Piper, who soaked her clothes for a week in cod-liver oil, eggs, and milk, then wore them on the New York City subway at rush hour.
"Game of Thrones" fans should know that two residents of Westeros do sensational work here: The performances by Stephen Dillane and Patrick Malahide are worth the price of admission and then some.
Murakami's most sensational works are among the first of his artistic maturity, from 1997 and 1998: large, pedestalled figures, in brightly painted fibreglass.
His far less sensational works since then prove that he would rather whisper than shout, though always in the vicinity of raw nerves.
In his fourth New York gallery show, the Chinese artist Zhang Huan, who once specialized in grueling, sensational works of performance art, follows this recipe closely, with predictably jaw-dropping results.
Stravinsky, a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov, was catapulted to early fame through his association with Serge Diaghilev, for whose Ballets Russes he composed a trio of sensational works that received their premieres in Paris: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913).
Here what pops off the screen aren't the exploding orange fireballs that have long been a staple of the Bond films and have been taken to new pyrotechnic levels by Hollywood producers like Jerry Bruckheimer, but some sensational stunt work and a core seriousness.
To bring such pieces of "one hundred percent proof" — in the sense of a sensational major new work — to the cultural marketplace was something which Walser, at least since his return to Switzerland, was no longer in a fit state to do — if indeed he ever had been.
His defining characteristics as a coach - relentless hard work, sensational man-management, an attention to critical detail on a par with Sir Dave Brailsford in cycling or Sir Clive Woodward in rugby union - make that both an alluringly novel challenge for him and within his capabilities.
Even if her star faded with time, she left behind a sensational body of work, literally and figuratively.
