Whether we’re aware of it or not, we each live our lives according to our own personal internalized philosophical theory — a more or less contradictory jumble of assumptions, beliefs, intentions, and hypotheses about the nature of the universe and our place in it. Each of us has ideas about the nature of existence, motion, [...]
First things first: Have you checked out our guide to all the music going down during Art Basel Miami Beach next week? If not, click here to check out Salty Eggs’ Art Basel music listings now; we’re updating it continually. If you did scan that list already, chances are you may be slightly exhausted in [...]
Becoming privy to an individual’s imagination is a privilege of viewing art, a privilege one forgets unless reminded. Sometimes the artist becomes disassociated from the piece itself somewhere between its construction and its entry into the public, but ultimately — lest we forget — those are someone’s thoughts you’re looking at. That’s the manifestation of [...]
Note from the editor: In the tradition of “Congressman’s Corner,” Salty Eggs has invited Rep. Allen West to field questions from his South Florida constituents. Until we get a response to our query, we will do our best to answer questions on his behalf, based on what we know of his temperament and politics. Dear [...]
Indianapolis is not a city one immediately associates with the arts or anything otherwise cosmopolitan. Then again, a little over a decade ago, neither was Miami. Rhonda Long-Sharp of the Long-Sharp Gallery in Indianapolis, formerly a lawyer specializing in death-penalty cases, has dedicated much of her soul to collecting art, by both legendary masters and [...]
Grant James sifts through new releases each week to bring us some of the good, the bad, and the Evanonsense. These are all available at Radio-Active Records and Sweat Records. Don’t hold it against them. Soundgarden, King Animal Soundgarden’s first album in 16 years opens with the appropriately titled single “Been Away Too Long.” A borderline-emo Cornell [...]
It’s Thanksgiving Eve — in other words, your Friday, if you’re a nine-to-fiver, and your time to get drunk, if you’re shirking cooking duties and like to face family with a raging hangover. Yes, since All of Nightlife convened for a round-table meeting some years ago, the Wednesday before Turkey Day has been dubbed one [...]
Theaster Gates might be an artist, but he is absolutely an urban planner. At a talk for the opening of Soul Manufacturing Corporation, his current exhibition at Locust Projects, he explained, “I don’t think that I’m engaged in artistic production at all. I am involved in meaning-making. Systems-making.” While he’s exhibited at museums and galleries, [...]
Most authors aren’t good at reading their own books. This maxim, delivered so astutely and simply (and hilariously) by Adam Gopnik during his delightful appearance Thursday at megafest Miami Book Fair International, really can’t be stressed enough. Gopnik is probably an exception, judging from his storytelling — though I can’t be sure since he didn’t [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
Venezuela has been in the media lately: following the death of Hugo Chávez, his chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, beat challenger Henrique Capriles in the current election for presidency. It was a miniscule margin of a win—about 50.7%–and as of this write-up, a contested verdict. But if you’re the average United Statesian, you are less aware [...]
