The conductor of Tuesday's program was Bernard Labadie, who did his best to chisel away at our aural overeducation and restore at least some element of the unexpected to this memorable work.
In the most memorable work, the black lines are thick, the area within them is white and the surrounding ground is sectioned off in big blocks of red and orange.
The assertively public poems continue, but they're rarely the most memorable work in the collections (and indeed, often suffer from failed rhetorical gestures).
So far the most memorable work since the fourth plinth was turned over to contemporary art has been Mark Wallinger's Ecce Homo, a life-sized cast of a young man in a loincloth, which appeared in 1999.
The last time this kind of survey was conducted, in 1965 (under the auspices of Book Week, the literary supplement of the soon-to-be-defunct New York Herald Tribune), the winner was Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man," which was declared "the most memorable" work of American fiction published since the end of World War II, and the most likely to endure.
Today, its low-slung, bird-winged profile is easily the most memorable work of architecture in the airport complex.
The most memorable work here is "Solo Scenes," which Dieter Roth made during the last two years of his life, when he knew he was dying.
The most memorable work on her program was Roland Dyens's "Anyway," a mesmerizing, richly contrapuntal score packed with technically challenging passages.
Examples by Constable and Corot offer familiar satisfactions, but the most memorable work comes from a Dane (Johan Thomas Lundbye), a Norwegian (Johan Christian Clausen Dahl), and the Antwerp-born Simon-Joseph-Alexander-Clement Denis, who paints the Italian campagna as a mystical region of rainbows and apocalyptic light.
This is Kaya Mar, the artist whose memorable work you may or may not remember from the birth of the royal baby.
