{"id":2353,"date":"2010-03-17T09:44:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T16:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/03\/the-curator-shaq\/"},"modified":"2010-03-17T09:44:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T16:44:20","slug":"the-curator-shaq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/17\/the-curator-shaq\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curator Shaq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/extra\/video\/blog\/2010\/03\/nba_star_shaq_attacks_art_worl.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from NPR.org<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>NBA Star Shaq Attacks Art World<\/h2>\n<p><center><script src=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/js\/pap\/embed.js?news01n3ca0qe3b\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Basketball star Shaquille <span class=\"caps\">O&#8217;N<\/span>eal has forayed into the art world as the curator of the exhibit &#8220;Size <span class=\"caps\">DOES<\/span> Matter,&#8221; on view at New York City&#8217;s <span class=\"caps\">FLAG<\/span> Art Foundation through May 27.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition, which explores the concept of size through art, features pieces such as Ron Mueck&#8217;s &#8220;Big Man&#8221; sculpture and tiny versions of <span class=\"caps\">O&#8217;N<\/span>eal and the Obama family in the eye of a needle, conceived by artist Willard Wigan. Other artists represented include Chuck Close, Jeff Koons, Elizabeth Peyton, Corban Walker and Cindy Sherman.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Roach, director of the <span class=\"caps\">FLAG<\/span> Art Foundation, says <span class=\"caps\">O&#8217;N<\/span>eal was selected to curate the exhibit because he represents &#8220;size not only physically but in terms of how he views life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/extra\/video\/blog\/2010\/03\/nba_star_shaq_attacks_art_worl.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to read at NPR.org<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from NPR.org NBA Star Shaq Attacks Art World Basketball star Shaquille O&#8217;Neal has forayed into the art world as the curator of the exhibit &#8220;Size DOES Matter,&#8221; on view at New York City&#8217;s FLAG Art Foundation through May 27. The exhibition, which explores the concept of size through art, features pieces such as Ron Mueck&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}