Kapoor Can’t Have World’s Glitteriest Glitter
Poor Anish Kapoor, first he was banned from buying British artist Stuart Semple’s pinkest paint in the world called, well, PINK. And now Semple has released a new product—and further retort to Kapoor—the world’s most glittery glitter: Diamond Dust. It all started when Kapoor secured exclusive rights to the world’s blackest black, a substance called Vantablack, which was created using carbon nanotubes. Though Kapoor makes a fairly strong case for his Vantablack deal, some artists felt it was a little unfair
that he wasn’t sharing.
Jokingly, this prompted Semple to start selling his extremely pink pigment, which he had been developing for years, with one caveat: that you had better not be Anish Kapoor, who wasn’t allowed to purchase it. People buying it even had to make a legal declaration at the online checkout to confirm they were not the Indian-born British sculptor, which they will also have to do when buying the glitter.
