"One features an image of a rabbit that Beuys noticed on a sugar packet while dining at Nye’s Polonaise Room in Minneapolis. Enlisting the help of his dinner partners, he searched the sugar supply on each table, as well as in the restaurant’s storeroom, for as many packets as he could find."

Joseph Beuys in Minneapolis

"New York is the most innocent town in the world. It looks as if it were made of children’s building blocks, and the shops have a naive glamour that I remember from the Roaring Twenties."

Joseph Beuys, on his first visit to the United States at the age of 53. The other two cities visited for his 1974 “Energy Plan for the Western Man”: Chicago and Minneapolis.