At 7’1” with a weight of 320 pounds and a shoe size of 22, Shaquille O’Neal is an all-star basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers as well as a curator.
Yep, you read it right. Shaq is a curator.
O’Neal is overseeing “Size DOES Matter,” an exhibition that begins in February at New York’s Flag Art Foundation. As O’Neal is such a big guy, it’s the perfect show for him to organize as the theme is size and scale. The exhibition will include 39 artists and 52 works of art with five special commissions. For the exhibition, O’Neal chose pieces to which he could relate. The image below pictures Ron Mueck’s sculpture “Untitled (Big Man),” which will be on loan from Washington’s Hirshhorn Museum.
The Flag Art Foundation regularly has guest curators, but this is the first time they’ve had one who is not from the art world. When asked whether organizing an exhibition was at all like playing basketball, O’Neal responded, “As a curator, I have a responsibility to the artists, who are my teammates. We all have to make each other look good—no different than what I do on the court.”
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