Can You Own a Color?

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What could be blacker than black?

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In which we discuss #ShareTheBlack - the strange color war that has arisen around the invention of a new shade of black–VANTABLACK–by British Nanotech firm Surrey Nanosystems, who licensed the shade exclusively to the artist Anish Kapoor. Can you exclusively license a color? Yes - but its weird - and only been done in very specific ways up to now. The conversation leads us to a place where we have to ask … what is color? And what exactly do artists make?

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Behold the New Vantablack 2.0 - http://artnt.cm/2s77xje
Anish Kapoor Gets Exclusive Rights - http://bit.ly/2s73T9g
Anish Kapoor - http://bit.ly/2s74EPD
What You Can Do With Vantablack - http://nyti.ms/2s6XZ7T
The "World’s Blackest Black" Creators - http://bit.ly/2s75jAL
Artist Continues War with Anish Kapoor - http://artnt.cm/2s6Y1g1
The Story of International Klein Blue - http://bit.ly/2s77J1W
Can an artist ever really own a colour? - http://bit.ly/2s6Qi1F
World's Blackest Material Now Comes in a Spray Can - http://bit.ly/2s74Cr3
10 Colors That