“A visitor to the Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Serralves museum in Porto was hospitalised this week after falling inside one of the British artist’s installations, which features a 2.5-metre-deep hole. It is not clear whether he fell into the hole or beside it.”

—The Art Newspaper

“Attendees of previous showings of the work have questioned ‘whether there really was a hole in the floor or whether it was simply a circle painted with an extremely dark black paint.’ Presumably there will be no doubts going forward.”

—Gizmodo

“Ladies and gentlemen: I invented the portable hole for the good of humanity. But let us all hope it will never be used for evil purposes.”

—Professor Calvin Q. Calculus, “The Hole Idea,” 1955

“On Sunday, May 30, 2010, an enormous hole, 60 feet wide and 30 stories deep, opened up in the middle of Guatemala City, swallowing a three-story building, a home, and local reports claimed that one man was killed when the building was swallowed.”

—Atlas Obscura

“Images of the crater, 20 metres across, 30 metres deep and nearly perfectly round, were published around the world — prompting complaints that the picture had been manipulated. But city officials said the crater was both real and round.”

—The Guardian

“HOLEY TERROR STILL ON THE LOOSE.”

—Newspaper headline, “The Hole Idea,” 1955

“You will see this story over and over again. People love it and it is not copyrighted. The story is ‘Man in Hole,’ but the story needn’t be about a man or a hole. It’s: somebody gets into trouble, gets out of it again.”

—Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country