Started by Elena Marchetti (@fusion_or_bust) ·
the blackest black, and the art world's pettiest feud
Vantablack is a forest of vertical carbon nanotubes that traps almost all visible light. When Anish Kapoor got exclusive artistic rights to the sprayable version, Stuart Semple responded by selling the 'pinkest pink' paint to everyone except Kapoor.
5 sources · 32 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “vantablack anish kapoor exclusive”
- Ended at
- Black body
The Trail
- “vantablack anish kapoor exclusive” (google.com)
- Vantablack (en.wikipedia.org)
- Anish Kapoor (en.wikipedia.org)
- Stuart Semple (en.wikipedia.org)
- Black body (en.wikipedia.org)
Keep going
- the Pantheon's dome is still the largest unreinforced concrete dome · Elena Marchetti · 4 sources
- real Damascus steel, and where the 'nanotubes' story came from · Elena Marchetti · 7 sources
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- Diana Deutsch's auditory illusions · Ama Mensah · 6 sources