Artist Anish Kapoor was immediately fascinated by Vantablack, and its ability to create a visual void. Famous for making impactful, abstract sculptures like Cloud Gate (aka the Chicago Bean ...

Anish Kapoor has long been known for his large-scale, intensely colored artworks, but his penchant for being proprietary has long irked others in the art world. But then came Vantablack.

In the case of art, that might actually be a good thing. British artists Anish Kapoor and Stuart Semple are currently engaged in a public feud of the world’s “blackest back,” pigments so ...

The first headlines came way back in 2014. British Indian artist Anish Kapoor was experimenting with Vantablack, a newly invented material said to be the blackest black ever made. “This material ...