Worse though is their strange civil rights conundrum.
Made between 1994 and 2002, Barney's Cremaster films (named after the muscles that control the rise and fall of the testes) were strange, haunting, mythological conundrums, moving from celtic myth and the TT races on the Isle of Man, to scenes in the New York Guggenheim museum, featuring mafia hitmen, dentistry, Gary Gilmore, and sculptor Richard Serra as a grand masonic master.
Storm Thorgerson's pictures created a world of illusions, visual puns, conundrums and strange narratives, often set in a surreal landscape occupied by people and objects carefully composed in seemingly impossible situations.
Why, indeed, are people so relentlessly driven to ask "Why?" Questions such as these, particularly in combination, cut close to the heart of what it means to be human, and "Human Natures" is an earnest attempt by the distinguished Stanford biologist Paul R. Ehrlich to provide an answer to the timeless conundrum that our strange species poses.
(Johnson) 'Mind Is Outer Space' (closes on Friday) Starting with a useful (video) lesson in looking at art, this outstanding group show of diverse works by 17 young and youngish artists is full of conundrums: mysterious presences, strange objects and inexplicable juxtapositions as well as abrupt shifts in scale or implication.
"It is strange," he said of his team's conundrum, but added, "I wouldn't trade it".
"It felt tremendous to be in the audience with so many great artists, being treated to such an authentic, strange, and beautiful performance by the Acrobatic Conundrum.
To explain this conundrum, cosmologists have postulated that a strange, previously undescribed repulsive force, which they call dark energy, is at work, counteracting gravity and pushing galaxies apart at an accelerating rate.
Instead, like Twin Peaks, with which it shares some marked similarities, Fortitude's murder feels more like the entry point into a bigger conundrum: what precisely is the deal with this strange place?
This conundrum lies at the heart of one of the strangest areas of foundational science.
