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Futurist: Silicon Valley Edition
Witness the scintillating, disturbing and altogether outrageous collection of selected stories of Silicon Valley’s elite and their victims. The thirteen tightly crafted narratives are full of deftly drawn characters and caricatures, universal truths and surprising comical delights amid the backdrop of the failings of the Silicon Valley dream. Using a range of approaches from bitter realism to psychotropic nightmare fantasy, Lil Diamond Smith can evoke the essential humanity, well hidden as it is, of their generally ambitious, disillusioned, desperate, and manipulative characters. Lil Diamond Smith specialises particularly in revealing the illusions about advanced digital life―A celebrity who no longer has any worth without her followers, a tech admin who spies…
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Empire State of Mind Strikes Back
Yeah, Yeah, I stuck in Bushwick, Now want to get to East village, Feeling like a zero, don’t want to be here forever, I’m not the new big shot, And since I haven’t made it here, I probably can’t make it anywhere, Yeah they ignore me everywhere, I avoid Bronx and Harlem, cause I don’t know no one people push into me on Broadway, going to white castle again today No money to stash just what I got in my wallet, Forget ridding highway cause I am walking on it, Catch me in the kitchen washing dishes, Payday..Cruising down Lorimer, Bright yellow taxi, Driving hurry up cause of the meter…
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And For a Second There They Lost Themselves
And for a second there they lost themselves..in that second: and she said as they looked down in the canyon at the candle flickering flames in boxes on the hillside, yes, she said, inside me, she said, yes and yes and in my eyes I long for an eternity of this dance of yes, and before they knew it they looked up through the leafy tree tops across the roof top and towards the confines of the universe and the darkness looking down on them and the stars that are awake tonight, and the fishing boat bobbing sea miles away laps on the sand and say yes, and with her…
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Adelaide Damoah in Conversation with Victor Ehikamenor
Victor Ehikhamenor is a Nigerian visual artist, photographer and writer. Born in Udomi-Uwessan, Edo State, Nigeria, Ehikamenor has BA in English and Literary Studies from Ambrose Ali University, an MS in Technology Management and and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University Of Maryland, USA. Ehikhamenor’s art is described in his bio as abstract, symbolic and politically motivated works with ties to his Benin Kingdom background. The work itself is at once striking, colourful and has an unmistakeably African aesthetic. I was lucky enough to attend the opening of his most recent exhibition at the Gallery of African Art in Mayfair London. Mrs Cooper kindly opened up her space…
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Adelaide Damoah in Conversation with Edward Ofosu.
I have known Edward Ofosu for a few years now. I was even privileged enough to exhibit with him once in a group show. I can go as far as to boast that he bought one of my paintings once. Ofosu, born in 1973 told me that he knew from as early as eight years old that one day, he was going to be a painter. Having completed his secondary education in the 90’s, in Ghana, Ofosu found himself still longing to paint worked long hours in a poultry farm doing finance, while at the same time studying under the tutelage of a local artist who encouraged his natural talent.…
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Adelaide Damoah in Conversation with Kelvin Okafor
Nwanebuni_(Self Portrait II) At only 28 years old, Kelvin Okafor is one of the best draughtsmen of our generation in my opinion. Born in 1985, Okafor’s passion for the pencil started at a very early age. Like many young art world stars, he appears to have come out of nowhere, but Okafor has been quietly perfecting his craft since he was a little boy. When his friends were playing outside, Okafor was inside drawing with his charcoal pencil. His passion for drawing followed him and propelled him to study fine art at Middlesex University from which he graduated in 2009. He has already won awards and had national and international…
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Adelaide Damoah in Conversation with Eugene Ankomah
Born in 1978 in the UK, Eugene Ankomah has already had an impressive art career spanning 18 years. Ankomah’s family settled in the UK when he was 13 years old. His love affair with art started at the tender age of five when he was first given the task of copying the image of a monkey at school. Described as a child prodigy even then, Ankomah went on to impress his school teachers enough to make his first sale while at the age of 16 and to win a number of awards and prizes which would later form the basis for his blossoming career. Ankomah kindly took some time out…
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God and the Fundamental Interactions – Sistine Chapel by Saul Zanolari
Saul Zanolari is working on the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling. After Adam and Eve now it’s time for God to be painted. The human being is still the center of this version of the Sistine Chapel. In this triptych God is setting the fundamental forces in nature: Gravitation, Electromagnetism, Nuclear Power (weak and strong). SAUL ZANOLARI God Gravity Sistine Chapel, 2013 240×300 cm SAUL ZANOLARI God Electromagnetism Sistine Chapel, 2013 240×300 cm SAUL ZANOLARI Atomic God Sistine Chapel, 2013 240×300 cm SAUL ZANOLARI FACIEBAT A.D. MMXIII © The latest news in contemporary and modern art in New York, London, Paris and Berlin
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Art that disappears when you look at it.
Somewhere in the world, a mother just stared into the eyes of her child for the very first time.Somewhere, an old man is looking at the last picture of his wife and is deciding that he can’t go on without her.Somewhere there is a couple getting married. Somewhere there is a couple that can’t carry on living like this. Somewhere there is a person who would give anything to be with her.Somewhere there is a drunk stumbling his way home. His mind is spinning and his stomach is filled with hard liquor and regret. He passes a tall, bright looking young girl who turned out okay even though she never met her dad,…
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Adelaide Damoah in Conversation with Aissata Pinto Da Costa
Aissata Pinto Da Costa is an artist and former runway model. Born in São Tomé and Príncipe, a small country in the Gulf of Guinea , off the Western coast of Africa. Aissata has lived in six countries around the world and speaks five languages fluently. Having travelled to more than 50 countries worldwide with her modelling career, Aissata settled in the United States in 1999. In 2007, Aissata became a self-taught artist. With three solo exhibitions under her belt, including Marymount Manhattan College and The Steuben Glass Gallery New York, Aissata has caught the attention of collectors all over the world. She took time out her busy studio practice…
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