Tumblr Regails Bean-Tastic Story of Multimillionaire Artist Who Bought the Rights to Vantablack

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Eric Lund
Jan 7, 2019 7:00 PM EST

It started with a post about all the strange and dumb ways people create facebook events to make fun of a peculiar art installation in Chicago casually referred to as "The Bean." It ended with a tale of millionaires, artist drama, backstabbing, and the fight over the least reflective substance in the world.

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    Water - IMindex ORIGINAL NOV Windex the Bean 15
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    Transport - 312 726 2113 Paint the Bean black so they can't Windex it NOV 13 312 726 2113 Paint Thinner Pour Paint Thinner On The Bean After They NOV 13 Paint It Black So We Can Windex TP S
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    Text - moose-shampoo if you've ever wondered what it's like to live in the midwest, this is it dragonastra the best part about it is that the art installation isn't actually called the Bean. It's called Cloud Gate, and artist Anish Kapoor (yes, THAT Anish Kapoor) hates that we call it the Bean. But i mean, look at it. It's a bean
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    Text - akamine-chan I HAD NO FKING IDEA THAT THE BEAN WAS CREATED BY ANISH KAPOOR. solongstarbird someone help me why is anish kapoor important what did he do?
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    Text - gay-jesus-probably Alright sit down for some Art World Drama bcause this is what I live for. So, sometime last year (?) science invented Vantablack, which is the darkest possible shade of black. Art world got incredibly excited. But as it needs to be very carefully made in a lab, it's hard to get a hold of, and is extremely expensive. Enter Anish Kapoor, aka F kFace McGee. Anish Kapoor buys the rights to Vantablack. He is the only human being on the planet that can legally use it, and he'
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    Advertising - phantomofthebookstore HAPPENING NOW Paint the Bean "Pinkest Pink" to annoy sculptor Anish Kapoor INTERESTED 2,546 people interested
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    Burro - So I think we can guess who got the better deal. And thus the feud ends, Kapoor defeated. ..But not quite. Kapoor, in this entire afair, has made exactly two comments to the public. The first being his charming message about aquiring Pinkest Pink, the second being claiming to Buzzfeed that he and his small army of lawyers will be suing Semple, an extremely poor artist who cannot afford a lawyer. No lawsuit has been made yet, fyi
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    Text - It takes even more for them to go to steal the light and colour from their neighbors in South London. https://www.change.org/p/kieron-williams-stop-anish- kapoor-taking-away-our-light-and-colour It takes still more for them to get the sole rights to a super black (an stop any other artist using it) just to make $100,000 dollar wristwatches. https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/mct-vantablack- hands-on But it takes things to a whole other level to illegally obtain another artist's pink withou
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    Text - Sometimes people act like rotters because they aren't getting enough love. And I know we can fix that... together! So to celebrate Anish's 64th birthday we are going to show him ALL the love. See you there! Love Stuart x IMPORTANT By attending this event you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated to Anish Kapoor, you are not attending on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information and belief this event wil
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    Transport - Cloud Gate Critique The Bean's Resume Public Hosted by Anna Moritz and 2 others OCT 27 Guy Fieri Cooks The Bean 23 NOV Public Hosted by Blaine McBroom
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    Poster - Give The Bean a Blanket Cuz It's TOO NOV 7 COLD Public Hosted by Allison Geller Release The Bean into Lake Michigan and NOV 11 shout "You're free!" Public Hosted by Dan Czuchra
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    Photography - Stuart Semple Yesterday at 8:00 AM We've made the void - now we are about to share the light! No filters no camera tricks just our new paint #sharetheblack #sharethelight #comingsoon ALSO HE JUST POSTED THIS!!!!! LIGHTEST LIGHT!
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