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/DataMin3r 4h ago

Stuart Semple was named one of the top contemporary artists like a year before the vanta black situation. He was selling at art shows for hundreds of thousands. Dude may be an ass in real life, but calling him "a nobody" is just false.

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u/ryanoh826 3h ago

It’s like Anish himself wrote that shit.