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Lo Que La Tierra Carga
Una activación de Marquette Park a través de la Residencia Curatorial Anchor inspira esta reflexión ecfrástica.
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What The Soil Carries
An activation of Marquette Park through the Anchor Curatorial Residency comes alive through this ekphrastic reflection.
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Tuning Away From Mechanized Listening: Interview with Madeleine Aguilar and Jordan Knecht
The fourth installment of this series brings in a conversation with artists making work that leads people to find their groove and delves into what that means in practice, and as a practice.
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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.”
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Comforting Ghosts: Big Chick’s Art Collection
Read about the stories behind the art collection located within an equally storied Uptown queer bar.
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Against All Odds: Inside the 2025 Wonder of Words Literary Festival
A peek into a Chicago literary festival that celebrates and centers Black voices, stories, and people.
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Art Picks
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September Art Picks
Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for September 2025.
Sixty Bilingual
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Lo Que La Tierra Carga
Una activación de Marquette Park a través de la Residencia Curatorial Anchor inspira esta reflexión ecfrástica.
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LOS CRYBABYS: A Somewhere in Chicago Story
Migrant communities are under attack by ICE and Los Crybabys aren’t going to let them take Don Jose from La Villita.
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Bonding in Snuggle: Jamila Woods & D-Composed
A video comic review of a sound healing experience presented at Kehrein Center for the Arts.
Interviews
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Tuning Away From Mechanized Listening: Interview with Madeleine Aguilar and Jordan Knecht
The fourth installment of this series brings in a conversation with artists making work that leads people to find their groove and delves into what that means in practice, and as a practice.
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Comforting Ghosts: Big Chick’s Art Collection
Read about the stories behind the art collection located within an equally storied Uptown queer bar.
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HARDLY CREATURES: an Interview with Rob Macaisa Colgate
Two poets connect on shared experiences of living with disability, and dive into the background that drove the poems which blossomed into a debut book.
On Archives
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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.”
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When Clouds Roll Away: A Community Reflection on the Johnson Publishing Company Archives
A look at “When Clouds Roll Away: Reflection and Restoration from the Johnson Archive,” through reflections from attendees, artist Theaster Gates, and the author’s own insights.
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From Chicago to Montgomery: Connecting the North and South
Connecting Gwendolyn Brooks’ 1971 poem “In Montgomery” and photographs by Moneta Sleet Jr. with the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement for Great Migration-descendant people.
The Latest Sixty News
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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.”
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Meet the 2025 Sixty x Bemis Center Critic-in-Residence!
This summer, Pia Singh will be traveling to Bemis Center in Omaha for our fourth annual Critic-in-Residence program!
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Replenishing Sanctuary: A Note on our Summer Slowdown // Una Nota Sobre Nuestro Descanso del Verano
Thoughts on putting people before productivity.