Can an Artist ever really own a colour?

Anish Kapoor has the exclusive rights to paint using Vantablack, the blackest black that has ever existed – but other artists are keen to use it

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Artists at War - 'apparently'

Sadly, this factually incorrect story is now making the rounds. Vantablack is not a paint and is most certainly not used to hide satellites and stealth planes!

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Vantablack - Blackest Black in the World

Marty Jopson heads to SurreyNano systems, a company behind the world blackest black. The vantablack mask seen in the film will be on display at the Science Museum from 12th Feb.

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Vantablack, the world’s blackest material, is coming to the Science Museum

Vantablack, the world’s blackest material, is coming to the Science Museum.

Its dark appearance is the result of a unique forest-like coating of densely packed, ultra-thin carbon nanotubes which absorb 99.96% of visible light that hits its surface.

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Channel 4 ditches signature '4' logo in 'brave and bizarre' rebrand

It’s either a bold reinvention of a middle-aged brand, or a marketing brainstorm too far. 

Channel 4 has unveiled a new on-screen identity which dispenses with the signature “4” logo that has provided the broadcaster’s focal point for 33 years.

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Your chance to look into a 'black hole': Scientists create material so dark you can't see it

The blackest material known to man has been applied to a Lynx can that's on display in London this month.

Scientists have coated a can of Lynx spray with a material called Vantablack - the blackest material known to man.

Vantablack has such unusual light-absorbing properties that it confuses the human eye, making it very difficult to focus or see any contours.

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Vantablack - the blackest black: Leading sculptor Anish Kapoor announces plans to use new substance

In July British scientists unveiled the creation of a “super black" – a substance so dark that according to some it looks “like there’s nothing there.”

Now, acclaimed British artist and sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor has said he plans to use the “very expensive” material in his latest installation.

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British breakthrough in world's darkest material

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and Enersys' ABSL Space Products division have worked alongside Surrey NanoSystems to help them develop a new 'super black' material, Vantablack®.

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Vantablack - the closest thing on earth to a black hole

Scientists in England say they've created a new way of synthesising light absorbing material that is so black it only reflects 0.035 percent of light, which could revolutionise satellites and telescopes, and our ability to understand the universe. Joel Flynn looks in.

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Blackest is the new black: Scientists develop a material so dark that you can't see it...

Puritans, Goths, avant-garde artists, hell-raising poets and fashion icon Coco Chanel all saw something special in it. Now black, that most enigmatic of colours, has become even darker and more mysterious.

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