"Someone fell into artist Anish Kapoor’s bottomless pit sculpture/Or, an accounting of the most absurd art-world accidents in recent history."

My Google alert on "artist" turned up that Fast Company article:

On view as part of museum Fundação de Serralves‘s survey exhibition on Kapoor’s work, the eight-foot-deep hole is located inside a free-standing 20-foot concrete cube, which helps create the optical illusion that it’s either an infinite void or just a black circle painted on the ground, depending on your perspective. In reality, the work is actually just a pit covered in black paint.

It’s not clear exactly how the man fell in, given that the museum posted signs and had a security guard present....  Kapoor’s black holes have landed him at the heart of art world controversy before, particularly surrounding his exclusive rights to make art with Vantablack, a material developed by Surrey Nanosystems that absorbs 99.9% of light and is considered the blackest substance currently known. Descent Into Limbo is more than two decades old and far predates Kapoor’s use of Vantablack, which, coincidentally, is frequently likened to a black hole. 

It's really cool that a product was invented that creates the illusion of what the artist had previously constructed in 3-D and perhaps a bit disturbing — as I wrote about earlier this year — that the artist possesses a particular unique paint. But given the artist's connection to Vantablack, it's easy to see how the falling-into-the-hole man may have arrived at the idea that he should step "onto" the "hole." If he did not know that the artwork predated Kapoor's acquisition of Vantablack, he may have believed that he'd prove the hole was merely an illusion.

I've seen other bloggers linking to this story, but it came to me via my Google alert, which brings me all manner of junk every day and maybe 1 in 100 is, like this one, worth blogging. But it seems all those other bloggers see fit to put up a Warner Brothers cartoon that has an actually painted black circle that some of the time is a hole. In deference to all that has gone before, then, I give you this fancier iteration of the idea: