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When sculptor Anish Kapoor bought exclusive artistic rights to Vantablack—the world's blackest material absorbing 99.965% of light—artist Stuart Semple sold his pigments to everyone except Kapoor. His site's cookie button reads 'I am not Anish Kapoor.'
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