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Originally Posted by Kraftwerk

Last I checked there was only one person ALLOWED to even use Vantablack, they paid for the usage.. agues stew right price. Sux for the ' regular Joe ' who wants to Vanta- his own '71 F100 or something... I suspect when this becomes widely available it will have it's moment in the sun just as flat black did a few years ago.

I think the key is that only one artist is licensed to use it for artistic purposes, not that only one person in the world can use it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack

Vantablack S-VIS, a sprayable paint that uses randomly-aligned carbon nanotubes and only has high absorption in the visible light band, has been exclusively licensed to Anish Kapoor's studio for artistic use.[16] This has caused outrage among some other artists, including Christian Furr and Stuart Semple.[17][18] In retaliation, Semple banned Kapoor from buying the strongest shade of pink that Semple had developed.[19][20] He later stated that the move was itself like performance art and that he did not anticipate the amount of attention it received.[21] In December 2016, Kapoor posted an Instagram post of his middle finger dipped in Semple's pink.[22] Semple then created another shade of paint made from crushed glass as a retort to Kapoor, and later barred Kapoor from buying other products of his, including his extremely strong shades of green and yellow paint as well as a paint sold as Black 2.0, which is nearly indistinguishable to Vantablack VBx, despite being acrylic. If one wanted to buy any of these paints, they would have to sign a contract stating that they were not Anish Kapoor and didn't intend to give the paint to Kapoor.[23][24]

Nanolab, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based carbon nanotube manufacturer, partnered with Boston artist Jason Chase to release a nanotube-based black paint called Singularity Black.[25] During the first showing of the colour, Chase, alluding to Vantablack, stated that "its possibilities have been stunted by not being available to experiment with," and Singularity Black's release was important to create access.[26]

Artreport.com contributor Jazia Hammoudi opined that the controversy had been manufactured by the media,[27] while the author of an article in Wired magazine suggested that the controversy between the artists and its online response was a spontaneous piece of collective performance art in itself.[21] The manufacturer claims that Vantablack is subject to export controls by the UK, and due to its physical requirements and thermal characteristics, the original Vantablack is not practical for use in many types of art.[28]

Vantablack VBx2, a variant of the non-nanotube Vantablack VBx that is optimized for large area spraying, was used in a "Vantablack pavilion" at the 2018 Winter Olympics.[29]

BMW will show a X6 concept with Vantablack paint at the Frankfurt Auto Show however BMW does not plan on producing the color on production models of the X6 [30]