STEPPING IN A BLACK HOLE. I have been thinking about vantablack because of this article from three days ago on the Gizmodo website by Andrew Liszewski. It is about an art work by Anish Kapoor which consists of an actual eight-foot hole that’s painted black—”so it appears to have no depth at all”. There is a picture of this art work accompanying the article. Museum goers have wondered “whether there really was a hole in the floor or whether it was simply a circle painted with an extremely dark black paint.”
One museum goer conducted an experiment. It turned out it was a hole, and the man fell eight feet and was briefly hospitalized.
Anil Kapoor bought the exclusive rights to the use of vantablack in art works in 2016, but remarkably, this art work was done by Kapoor before the invention of vantablack, which shows that Kapoor has long been interested in blackness.