Art Fight! The Pinkest Pink Versus the Blackest Black
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Nanotube-based Vantablack was aimed at engineers. Then a famous sculptor locked it up—and the artistic community found this unpalatable.
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Anish Kapoor Owns the Rights to the Blackest Color Ever Made. So
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Artist Buys Rights To A Black Pigment So Others Can't Use It, Gets
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The Art War – Stuart Semple vs Anish Kapoor – The Times of Addu
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Mattest & Flattest: Blackest Paint You Can Buy Turns Solids into
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The Vantablack Controversy: Anish Kapoor vs. Stuart Semple
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The Worlds “Blackest Black” and the Hilarious Artist Feud Behind It
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work #16897, THE WORLD'S PINKIST PINK, multiple, 2016 - Stuart
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Anish Kapoor flaunts use of world's pinkest pink despite ban
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The Vantablack Controversy: Anish Kapoor vs. Stuart Semple
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Anish Kapoor gets his hands on 'pinkest pink' after being banned
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Art Fight! The Pinkest Pink Versus the Blackest Black
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Even PINKER than PINKEST PINK - I've made us a much more potent
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This Artist Is the Only Person Banned From Using the World's