Shaq's Curatorial Debut: Power Curator. Julia Allison and DJ Mayonnaise Hands

Size does Matter!!!!!! curated by Shaquille O’Neal

"The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to present “Size DOES Matter”, curated by basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal. This exciting exhibition, on view from February 19, 2010 - May 27, 2010, includes works from international artists exploring the myriad ways that scale affects the perception of contemporary art.

Artists have readily utilized the element of size. Large and small objects require different approaches, elicit unique responses from their viewer, and reflect the varying purposes in which works of art were meant to serve. This dynamic exhibition will include a variety of mediums that play with scale as a key component in the composition of the artwork. Every work in the show was selected by Shaq himself or is being newly made at his request. "

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Design and the Elastic Mind (Review of Paola Antonelli's exhibition in MOMA -2008)

In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order to preserve some slow downtime, people cope daily with dozens of changes in scale. Minds adapt and acquire enough elasticity to be able to synthesize such abundance. One of design's most fundamental tasks is to stand between revolutions and life, and to help people deal with change. Designers have coped with these displacements by contributing thoughtful concepts that can provide guidance and ease as science and technology evolve. Several of them—the Mosaic graphic user's interface for the Internet, for instance—have truly changed the world. Design and the Elastic Mind is a survey of the latest developments in the field. It focuses on designers' ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and social mores, changes that will demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior, and convert them into objects and systems that people understand and use.

The exhibition will highlight examples of successful translation of disruptive innovation, examples based on ongoing research, as well as reflections on the future responsibilities of design. Of particular interest will be the exploration of the relationship between design and science and the approach to scale. The exhibition will include objects, projects, and concepts offered by teams of designers, scientists, and engineers from all over the world, ranging from the nanoscale to the cosmological scale. The objects range from nanodevices to vehicles, from appliances to interfaces, and from pragmatic solutions for everyday use to provocative ideas meant to influence our future choices. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

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Britain in 2010 – as predicted in 1990- Amazing article published today

In 1990, the century was getting ready to end and London too – its defeated human population draining away, its traffic choked, its decrepit buildings augmented by cardboard cities lodging indigent teenagers – seemed to be on its last legs. Looking 20 years ahead, the Observer imagined a dystopia like that in Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Ridley Scott'sBlade Runner: either a dualistic city with the rich en skied in inaccessible towers and the poor penned underground, or a third world swamp teeming with people anxious for expatriation to another planet. Despair even reduced us to agreeing with Prince Charles, who had been whingeing about the city's "inhumanity".

Gurus, when asked to prognosticate about 2010, warned of trouble. The Labour MP Tony Banks expected that a widening gulf between ostentatious wealth and dank poverty would provoke class war. The urban planner Peter Hall worried about a property market driven by reckless greed and noted the existence of an underclass excluded from the economy and hardly belonging to society. The journalist Peter Kellner recommended that London's population should be decreased by two million – did he expect a convenient plague, or a particularly spectacular al-Qaida atrocity? – and set an example by abruptly moving to Cambridge...

by P. Conrad, The Observer (24/1/10)