Anish Kapoor Draws Criticism for Exclusive Rights to Vantablack

March 1st, 2016

Anish Kapoor is drawing controversy this week, after the artist was granted exclusive artist rights to the Vantablack pigment, a paint that absorbs over 99% of light.  “I’ve never heard of an artist monopolizing a material,” says another artist, Christian Furr. “We should be able to use it. It isn’t right that it belongs to one man.”

Read more at Artforum