I got kinda busy today and didn’t get to fully transcribe the stuff from Shaq’s media event at his art exhibition yesterday. (Shaq, for a variety of a reasons, is a difficult man to mic, which makes transcription difficult.)
Anyway, in the meantime, enjoy this brief iPhone video of Shaq talking about art. You’ll have to [...]

“Now this is a table for Shaq,” said a girl with day-glo orange hair and tattered leggings to a man in a black jacket with all sorts of extraneous zippers.
They stood under Robert Therrien’s No Title (Table and Six Chairs) and gawked at the massiveness of the work. The piece is not hard to describe: [...]

I’ve always been interested in stadium architecture. I like sports and my father is an architect, so I guess it’s a natural fit.
I wrote my final grad school paper on the Bird’s Nest stadium that was, at the time, under construction for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. I touched on some of the themes of [...]

Is there a more awesome human than Shaquille O’Neal?
For years I’ve maintained that everything Shaq does is art, and now he’s taking it up a notch:
Shaquille O’Neal is curating an art exhibit set to start on Feb. 19 at the FLAG Art space in Chelsea.
Needless to say, I will do everything in my power to [...]

Little-known fact: I did my master’s studies in Arts and Humanities, an interdisciplinary arts program I began immediately after giving up my dream of a career in sports journalism. I had no solid plan in mind for turning it into an actual job, but it seemed like — and was — a damn fine excuse [...]