courtesy of Fundação de Serralves, Museum of Contemporary Art, PortoArt & PhotographyNewsA man has fallen into an Anish Kapoor artwork and ended up in hospitalA literal ‘Descent into Limbo’ShareLink copied ✔️August 18, 2018Art & PhotographyNewsTextThom Waite A man has ended up in hospital after falling into one of British artist Anish Kapoor’s installations at the Serralves museum in Porto. The now ironically-titled “Descent into Limbo (1992)” is comprised of a cubic building with a circular hole in the center of its floor, which visitors can walk around. The sides of the hole are coated with a black pigment to give the impression of an infinite space, but the hole itself is (luckily) only 2.5 metres deep. Admittedly, that’s still a pretty long way to fall, given that it’s almost 1.5 times the height of an average European man. Though the visitor – reportedly an approximately 60 year old Italian man – was hospitalised by the fall, a spokesperson for the Serralves museum said that he is “almost ready to return home”. The artwork, despite adhering to security protocol and having warning signs, is temporarily closed while the museum assesses what happened, but there are hopes that it will be reopened “in a few days”. The exhibition that “Descent into Limbo” is a part of – Anish Kapoor: Works, Thoughts, Experiments – is the artist’s first major show in Portugal, and runs until January 6, 2019. Just mind the big hole. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MORELiz Johnson Arthur immortalises PDA, London’s iconic queer POC club nightThis ‘Sissy Institute’ show explores early trans internet cultureLife lessons from the legendary artist Greer LanktonPhotos of Medellín’s raw, tender and fearless skateboarding culture‘A space to let your guard down’: The story of NYC’s first Asian gay barInside the debut issue of After Noon, a magazine about the nowPalestine Is Everywhere: A new book is demanding art world solidarityThe standout images from Paris Photo 2025These photos capture the joy of connecting with strangersStephanie LaCava and Michella Bredahl on art and ‘messy’ womanhoodBeavers, benzos, and ASMR: What to see at the 2025 Shanghai BiennaleFinal photos from Chengdu’s queer club in the sky