One Artist Has a Monopoly on the World's Blackest Black Pigment, Smart News
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Last updated 15 Jun 2024
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Artists are up in arms over Anish Kapoor’s exclusive rights to "vantablack"
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Anish Kapoor Owns the Rights to the Blackest Color Ever Made. So Another Artist Made His Own Superblack—and Now It's Even Blacker
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Vantablack Is The New World's Blackest Black Substance, 54% OFF
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GQ - Art Wars - Who owns the new colour black? - Stuart Semple: Official Homepage
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You could disappear into it': Anish Kapoor on his exclusive rights to the 'blackest black', Anish Kapoor
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Stuart Semple Unleashes His Final Superblack Paint in His Long-Running Art Supply Battle With Anish Kapoor
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TIL sculptor Anish Kapoor bought exclusive rights to the Vantablack, world's “blackest black. So artist Stuart Semple developed a new pigment “pinkest pink” to rival the exclusivity of Kapoor's black. Semple's pigment
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The Vantablack Controversy: Anish Kapoor vs. Stuart Semple
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Vantablack Is The New World's Blackest Black Substance, 54% OFF
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Stuart Semple Unleashes His Final Superblack Paint in His Long-Running Art Supply Battle With Anish Kapoor
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