stackyFACTSWhen a company invented Vantablack, the blackest material known to humanity, they aggressively sold the exclusive artistic rights to exactly one artist: Anish Kapoor.
When a company invented Vantablack, the blackest material known to humanity, they aggressively sold the exclusive artistic rights to exactly one artist: Anish Kapoor. This infuriated the entire art world, leading a rival artist, Stuart Semple, to create the 'pinkest pink' and legally ban Kapoor from ever buying it. It sparked a hilarious, highly litigious economic feud over who has the legal right to dab certain pigments onto a canvas.
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