In his own words, Hofmann experienced an “intoxicated-like condition” along with an overactive imagination.

It’s all been a dreadful embarrassment, but why should anyone outside Germany be concerned? Because Documenta was always a pacesetter — and this year’s edition certainly put its finger on a larger shift, seen too in our museums, our art schools and our magazines, away from aesthetic ambition and intellectual seriousness and toward the easier comforts of togetherness, advocacy and fun.

The takeovers were financed by issuing zeroes.

The road up to the house had a steep inclination.