Anish Kapoor has bought 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.
Vantablack isn’t even really a pigment. It’s a carbon nanotube structure that is suited to telescope interiors.
Stuart Semple’s Culture Hustle’s Black2.0 and Black 3.0 are both fantastic paints. He doesn’t half step, his pink is fucking ridiculous. His glow pigments are intense and easy to use. His chrome isn’t just silver paint, it’s like actually chrome-like.
Yea this is the thing that gets me. My understanding was he invented something to improve optics, and patented it. It wasn’t like he made some paint that nobody could use. Am I wrong?
Kapoor didn’t invent shit. He bought sole rights to use the medium in art (no loss at all to the art world for which it is not especially useful) and that’s just a dickish thing to do. Kapoor has always been a dick though. Stuart Semple’s Culture Hustle made acrylic pigments that eat almost as much light and are safe to use. Culture Hustle has a lot of neat stuff for artists and hobbyists.
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.
Like. If you can’t fulfill an order or something just tell me. But to keep the money, not ship a product, sign me up to your newsletter, say “you’re looking into it” and not ever look into it… it’s fucking shady af
Explanation for the people out of the loop:
Anish Kapoor has bought 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.
Stuart Semple also developed a comparably “black” black to Vantablack, that is arguably darker and better suited for art use.
Isn’t it also 100x safer to use than vantaback?
Vantablack isn’t even really a pigment. It’s a carbon nanotube structure that is suited to telescope interiors.
Stuart Semple’s Culture Hustle’s Black2.0 and Black 3.0 are both fantastic paints. He doesn’t half step, his pink is fucking ridiculous. His glow pigments are intense and easy to use. His chrome isn’t just silver paint, it’s like actually chrome-like.
Yea this is the thing that gets me. My understanding was he invented something to improve optics, and patented it. It wasn’t like he made some paint that nobody could use. Am I wrong?
Kapoor didn’t invent shit. He bought sole rights to use the medium in art (no loss at all to the art world for which it is not especially useful) and that’s just a dickish thing to do. Kapoor has always been a dick though. Stuart Semple’s Culture Hustle made acrylic pigments that eat almost as much light and are safe to use. Culture Hustle has a lot of neat stuff for artists and hobbyists.
Ahh I stand corrected. Thanks!
Vantablack is applied via spraying it on at some 200 degrees C, then putting the object in a vacuum to let the nanotubes align.
Its not really a paint.
I have both versions of Semple’s black. Paint brush works fine. You need a lab to apply Vantablack.
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.
Yes. Culture Hustle is Semple’s.
Cool.
Yeah, literally the worst customer experience I’ve ever had anywhere.
No product, no answers, ignored emails. It was fucking bizarre honestly.
Good to know, hopefully people will see this and not shop there.
Hopefully.
Like. If you can’t fulfill an order or something just tell me. But to keep the money, not ship a product, sign me up to your newsletter, say “you’re looking into it” and not ever look into it… it’s fucking shady af
I bought both versions of his “black” and they’re great. #1 is blacker by far, harder to apply though.
Also he created The Bean and hates it when people call it “The Bean.”
Yes, and literally everyone everywhere calls it The Bean. LoL 😂
I’ll be honest, that does just sound like licensing a color. I wanna call dibs on blue
Sorry, but Yves Klein beat you to it by some 65 years.
That is a sexy blue!
At least he’s in the same place as Charlie Kirk, so that’s good.