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Shaq curating NY art exhibition: Size Does Matter
Shaquille O'Neal is lending a hand as curator of an art exhibition in New York titled Size Does Matter. His involvement does sound a touch token (picking favourites from a selection put to him) but it's a novel way to get some attention and would be of interest to many basketball fans.
Shaq made 66 selections for the show—which features works ranging from the ginormous (Andreas Gursky's billboard-size photograph Madonna I) to the microscopic (a Shaq portrait by Willard Wigan)—out of over 200 images that founder Glenn Fuhrman and director Stephanie Roach showed him over dinner after a game.NYMag has an interview with Shaq about his involvement in the exhibition.
Do you buy art?
I have six kids, and if they ripped something, I’d be devastated. Maybe when they grow up, I’ll buy. I’d like Ron Mueck [whose Untitled: Big Man appears in the show] to do a sculpture of me. I would like to make it twenty feet tall and put it in the middle of a residential neighborhood—make it two stories high and in the head I’d have my office.
Read the full interview here
