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And just by the entrance hangs a whimsical painting by Hiroyuki Nakamura, a local artist whose studio Waldman was taken to visit by his friend, the Andy Warhol Museum curator Eric Shiner. "There’s a word they use in Japanese manga called hentai, which in English doesn’t translate well," he explains. "It basically means perverted. There's something very creepy about Nakamura's art — it intersects creepy with cute, and I love all kinds of intersections. My work is all about intersections as well, where design intersects art and technology intersects design."