🧵 Vantablack: The Colour War Between Artists

How the world’s darkest colour sparked a feud over creativity and control.

In the art world, colour is everything. But what happens when one artist claims exclusive rights to the darkest shade of black ever created? Here is a story about Ventablack.

Vantablack, a name derived from "Vertically Aligned NanoTube Arrays," is a synthetic material developed by British company Surrey NanoSystems in 2014. Ventablack is not a regular pa…