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EXTENDED BREAKDOWN(s) with Noa Micaela Fields
Interdisciplinary artist Jared Brown interviews poet Noa Micaela Fields in the latest iteration of Extended Breakdowns.
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Una toxina amenaza, pero también invita
En la última exposición del artista agustine zegers en la Galería 400, el olor a petróleo evoca recuerdos y emociones para explorar nuestra paradójica ternura hacia las toxinas creadas por el hombre.
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TUNING AWAY FROM MECHANIZED LISTENING: Interview with Teddy Sandler about Sonic Resonance
How does a retreat pass on the art of Djing and active listening?
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Tracing the significance of the Roger Brown Study Collection (1997-2025) within the midwest arts ecosystem
Gabrielle Christiansen examines the contentious sale of the Roger Brown Study Collection and the threatened future of the artist’s former home in Lincoln Park.
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Third Spaces for the Struggle: On Build, Miss Willa’s, and the Work of Belonging
A conversation between one of the new co-owners of Build Coffee & Books in Chicago, and Ryan Sorrell at The Kansas City Defender as they save and revive Missouri’s oldest Black bookstore, Miss Willa’s Books & Vinyl.
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Review: You will have revelations along felled branches and longer roots/routes
Susannah Papish reviews Temitayo Ogunbiyi’s exhibition, “You will have revelations along felled branches and longer roots/routes.”
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Short-and-Sweet: A Note on Sixty’s Year-End Slowdown
A quick message about our annual collective slowdown from November 26 to January 4.
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A Sticky End
In an exhibition at Roots & Culture, artists Kitty Rauth and Ále Campos compare histories of sunken cruise ships and gay cruising culture to interrogate the morality of our never-ending search for pleasurable experiences.
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Hearing Space, Seeing Sound: A Review of Andy Graydon’s “Early Reflections”
At Hair + Nails Gallery in Minneapolis, Andy Graydon presented defunct fluorescent bulbs, borrowed garbage, and degraded acetate records in a recent exhibition, encouraging viewers to pay closer attention and discover unexpected synchronicities.
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Art Picks
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November Art Picks
Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for November 2025.
Sixty Bilingual
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Una toxina amenaza, pero también invita
En la última exposición del artista agustine zegers en la Galería 400, el olor a petróleo evoca recuerdos y emociones para explorar nuestra paradójica ternura hacia las toxinas creadas por el hombre.
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against citizenship: three poems x José Olivarez
“i can hear your voices: when did josé get so cyclical?”
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Dancing, Drifting, Dallying
Irene Hsiao’s new performance “Guardians of the Earth and Sky” draws from Chinese cosmology’s four directional guardians: the White Tiger of the West, the Black Tortoise of the North, the Azure Dragon of the East.
On Archives
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Chicago Archives + Artists Project: Interview with Dr. ShaDawn Battle
How does one archive footwork? What stories can be told about a time and place through the movement of the body?
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Chicago Archives + Artists Project: Interview with Liú méi zhì huì & jellystone robinson frazier of the National Public Housing Museum
Cultural workers at the National Public Housing Museum preserve oral histories and stories from those who have lived experienced with public housing.
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Announcing the 2025 Chicago Archives + Artists Project Pairings
Meet the 2025 CA+AP archive + artist participants as we continue the theme of “Embodying the Archive.”
Sixty Lit
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against citizenship: three poems x José Olivarez
“i can hear your voices: when did josé get so cyclical?”
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finessing is not scamming: Three Poems by E’Mon Lauren
In three poems, Chicago’s inaugural Youth Poet Laureate explores a wide range of theme, including femme rage, racialized beauty standards, class, lineage, and hustling to make ends meet.
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The Risky Sex, or Why I’m Befriending Men
In her search for connection, a woman dares to ask: Are men capable of friendship?
The Latest Sixty News
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Short-and-Sweet: A Note on Sixty’s Year-End Slowdown
A quick message about our annual collective slowdown from November 26 to January 4.
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No borders in our art, no borders in our neighborhoods, no borders anywhere / Sin fronteras en nuestro arte, sin fronteras en nuestros barrios, sin fronteras en ninguna parte
Sixty Inches From Center unequivocally condemns the violence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal agents supporting ICE, and all forms of immigrant detention and deportation tactics.
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Resources Towards Solidarity, Care, and Community Defense
200+ resources for community self-defense, basic needs, solidarity, creative caretaking, and organizing within the Chicagoland area.