The Big Warrior poses for Kehinde Wiley - Via Getty Images
NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal is known by many nicknames: “the Big Aristotle”, “the MDE”, “the Big Shaqtus”, “The Big Baryshnikov” and we can now dub him “the Big Curator”? Yup, “the Diesel” is putting yet another one of his “talents” (although sounds like he got some help) to use as he’s curating an exhibition this Friday, February 19th at the Flag Art Foundation in New York.
On paper, Shaq certainly seems qualified to be involved with the show, entitled “Size DOES Matters”, as he’s definitely has dealt with the advantages and disadvantages of size all his life. It can’t hurt that he’s selecting an All-Star ballot full contemporary arts top names such as: Maurizio Cattelan, Andreas Gursky, Jeff Koons, Richard Pettibone, Thomas Ruff, Kehinde Wiley, Ron Mueck (whom Shaq would one day like to have sculpt him) and Lisa Yuskavage to name a few.
