For his 1974 conceptual art piece I Like America and America Likes Me, the German artist Joseph Beuys flew to New York City and, wrapped in felt, was driven in an ambulance to the Rene Block Gallery. There, he spent three days (eight hours each day) in a small room with a wild coyote. (The room also contained a pile of straw.) On the last day, the coyote, who had come to trust the artist, allowed Beuys to give him a hug. Beuys was then driven back to the airport, again in an ambulance, and flew back to Germany. He had seen nothing of the United States except the room and the coyote.