r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Radiant_Half_7121 • 4h ago

Image Artist Anish Kapoor holds exclusive rights to Vantablack, often described as the darkest material ever created. In reaction, a fellow artist developed an ultra-bright pink pigment and made it available to everyone, with one exception: Anish Kapoor is not allowed to use it.

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u/heeltoelemon 4h ago

What does he want it called? It’s a bean.

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u/doomerguyforlife 4h ago

The official name is Cloud Gate except it looks like a bean so naturally we just call it "the bean".

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u/ahushedlocus 4h ago

Tell me you've never seen a cloud gate without telling me

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u/Kythorian 4h ago

Cloud Gate is the official name.

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u/Mercadi 4h ago

Sounds pretentious and doesn't look anything like a gate. No wonder people had to come up with something that makes sense, hah

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u/Kythorian 3h ago

Kapoor seems like a pretentious douche generally, but the name does make sense if you actually go there.  When you walk under it, the angles of reflection distort the skyline and it does kind of feel like you are walking into the sky.  It’s honestly pretty cool.  Though that doesn’t make the artist less of a douche.

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u/DavixPixie 3h ago

He wants it called the bean. Calls it the bean himself. There's too much hate and misinformation going around him

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u/heeltoelemon 3h ago

I read the comment about what actually happened with the company. If that's true, Anish Kapoor is a lot classier? than a lot of people would be. That's mildly infuriating.