Artist Buys Rights To A Black Pigment So Others Can’t Use It, Gets Trolled In Return

This was most entertaining and really funny! I must google and learn more!

If he didn't want people to call it a bean, he shouldn't have made it look exactly like a f*****g bean.

I had no idea the art world was so cutthroat.

This story didn't disappoint.

This was.... incredible. Off to Wikipedia we goooooooo

I didn't know Amish existed until now and I already dislike him, how corrupt can you become to buy the rights to the color black and not let anyone else use it? Ugh I hate people like this.

Jeez, I'm torn. I really like the sculpture but the artist sounds like a jerk. I guess I'll compromise by referring to it as the " bean" when it comes up in conversation. Which so far has been never.

Kapoor sounds like a real douche!

I think the blackness of the bean represents kapoor's dark soul not the the world's current situation.

I just googled more about this... why is this so interesting and funny lol

I'm assuming Anish Kapoor is some other language for "asshat..."

Anish Kapoor can stick his pinkest pink middle finger into his Vanta Black hole!

I'm baffled why this guy was knighted. I thought the Queen was cool..... But, I suppose she hasn't had a background check on him or was somehow "forced" to do it... such a shame

I bought the pinkest pink when it came out, I wasn’t impressed with the pigment. But! I am slightly color blind (tritanopia) so maybe I’m unable to experience the full beauty. :( I’m all for bringing down rich elistest a******s though!

I took all of four more seconds to consider, that maybe it will now be something that reminds me that even the ugliest of souls can make something that others only see the beauty in....sticks that inside my head so I don't blech openly each time I see it now :P

This is something I legitimately needed to know. Very cool. Thank you!

It definitely looks like a giant bean

Omg just lmao the whole time

What is Kapoor’s relation to the bean??

Thank you Bored Panda for post like these, honestly you're site is becoming epic to the (us) unwashed hordes!

Sooooo, there is this guy who buys the rights to a special paint because he does not want to share. And everyone is like: Oh yeah? We will make our own paimt. Cheaper, Safer and almost free to almost everyone... And they do... Well... lets say I have got the cure for cancer. But I wont share, because.... reasons. Plus I am a big meanie. Your turn

😂😂😂😂😂😂

If bansky showed him self he would earn millions and the ability to shun this douchebag

Kapoor stole that design from the greatest artist ever known; the creator of all, including beans -and his are tasty and nourishing. -kapoor s poor copy, not so much.

How can you copyright a color?

Well, while entertaining and somewhat humorous, this isn't entirely factual. Kapoor bought the licensing rights for exclusive use of Vantablack S-VIS - a spray applicated derivation of the original lab-grown Vantablack - for artistic use. If you wanted to - and could afford to - buy some cans of Vantablack S-VIS to paint your car, you can. You just can't use it for artistic purposes. This doesn't quite make Kapoor the moneygrabbing devil you all seem determined to paint him as. Furthermore, he is far from the only artist - or individual - to do something like this. Furthermore, the original Vantablack - the stuff they actually reference in this article - is licenced from the lab that actually made it, and they, obviously, also own the rights to the stuff. That stuff is also available for purchase, provided you pay for the stuff as well as the licensing. This is not new, nor is it anything particularly special.

AKA You work it out

can anyone tell me what diamond dust, phaze, shift and black 2.0 looks like by itself and what it looks like when painted on something?

I love this so much

I went straight to Stuart Semple's websites to buy some of his pigments. FYI I'm not an artist!

Great bedtime story. Nighty night

Brilliant. Just....Brilliant. :)

Now it makes sense. Did you know Millennium park is designed to be an altar to the Serpent's eye? Aerial view from above, Jay Pritzker Pavilion is a pineal gland (looks like a pine cone which is symbolic for the pineal gland). And the BP Pedestrial Bridge next to it is a snake design. And the Bean is the snake's seed/egg. I think the whole "contest" was a b******t story, and they specifically designed it this way.

meaniebeanies! *buys rights to the brownish puke-color that just came out of my cat*

So this Anish Kapoor is the "Martin Scarelli" of Art.

One of BP's best evr!

Kapor spent a huge amount of his own money and time in working with Dupont to develop Vantablack, which is the bit left out by those who enjoy spreading fake news..... maybe get all the facts, rathr than just assuming somebody is a prick because it's a good laugh.

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It really does sound like this Kapoor guy is a douchecanoe, but I'm not sure that Semple is such a saint. He won, he had a good laugh at Kapoor's expense, everyone has a better deep black they can use, but he's still really holding on to that grudge.