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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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What Lives In Us Is Never Lost—Review of “Black Defined 1: Ceramics”
How does one exhibition with a bold claim in the title begin the work of defining Blackness through ceramics?
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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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Reverence for the wild, screaming parts of myself: Interview with Jess Zottola
In this video interview, Minneapolis-based painter and muralist Jess Zottola talks process, material, and honoring the loudest parts of herself.
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“People like us do that”: A review of No Stars in Jefferson Park
A writer reviews the story of Gift Theatre Company, a creative labor of love in Chicago where deep bonds were forged, as recalled by Maggie Andersen.
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The vessel as a nucleus: A review of Sacred Containers: Capsules, Conduits, and Other Stories
An exhibition that is a shell cracked open, ripe with contents, finding strength in sharing the vulnerability that lies within its protective containment.
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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.
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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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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.