Anish Kapoor

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• Enkrod@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Explanation for the people out of the loop:

  Anish Kapoor has secured the exclusive rights to Vantablack in Art, meaning other artists are not allowed to use it.

  He was critizised heavily by painter Stuart Semple, who told Kapoor to #ShareTheBlack. Semple in turn created the “world’s pinkest pink,” alongside the “world’s most glittering glitter.” And the license for those state that both can be purchased by anyone in the world, except Anish Kapoor.

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  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Stuart Semple also developed a comparably “black” black to Vantablack, that is arguably darker and better suited for art use.

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    • DarkSirrush@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Isn’t it also 100x safer to use than vantaback?

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    • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Is he the guy that owns culture hustle?

      I ordered $270 worth of pigments from them and they never shipped them. I followed up five times over four months and I got emails back saying they’d look into what was going on and I never found out what was goin on. I never got a shipping label. Never got confirmation the order was sent. They stopped replying to my emails eventually (I was polite, for the record).

      I finally ended up filing a dispute with my credit card company.

      Never in my life have I dealt with such a kafkaesque process.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I bought both versions of his “black” and they’re great. #1 is blacker by far, harder to apply though.

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Also he created The Bean and hates it when people call it “The Bean.”

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    • buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes, and literally everyone everywhere calls it The Bean. LoL 😂

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  • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ll be honest, that does just sound like licensing a color. I wanna call dibs on blue

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    • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sorry, but Yves Klein beat you to it by some 65 years.

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• Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What an obscure joke, I love it. Fuck Kapoor, btw.

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ask my homies hate Kapoor!

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• tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hey Anish, this fish is black, like real black. Blacker than that. Way super black. Oh also Stuart told me to tell you “Suck it, Anish.”

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  • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Blacker than the blackest black, times infinity

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s so black, it’s like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.

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    • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I was pretty sure that was what that was and I was not disappointed.

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• slothrop@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  +1 for obscurity. Beautiful.

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• baatliwala@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You’re laughing. Anish Kapoor is trying his best to patent this fish and you’re laughing.

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• gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Vanta sushi

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• chocrates@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I didn’t know most of the details, this is a good write up https://www.thecollector.com/vantablack-anish-kapoor-stuart-semple-controversy/

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• altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I came, I looked at it, I got blacked, and I liked it. No necessarily in that order.

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