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Show & Tell: Records and Reflections on Burlesque in Chicago
In this photo essay and interview series, multi-disciplinary artist Erica McKeehen and members of Chicago’s burlesque community reflect on the meaning and importance of burlesque in their life, their fellow performers lives, and its story within the city of Chicago.
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The Atmosphere that Holds Us: an interview with Brittany Nelson on I can’t make you love me
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An interview with Brittany Nelson about her latest exhibition contemplating the vastness of space exploration and the intricacies of unrequited love.
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Deer in Headlights: A Review of Archiving Edging at Roots & Culture
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In this exhibition, artists olivier and Martín Wannam explore ‘anarchiving’—or, producing new and generative relationships with public records of queerness past and present.
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Weapons of Mass Distraction: A reflection on Difference Machines, an exhibition at Wrightwood 659
Tech and its evolution from tools to wearable devices, its nano privacy disruption, its future without us is presented in a dream from el Tío. A dream illustrated by Carlos Matallana in response to ‘Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art’ at Wrightwood 659.
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Black fugitivity beyond the trenches of genocide: a response to J’Sun Howard’s The Righteous Beauty of the Things Never Accounted For
Black Fugitivity is not about escape, but knowing where one is at, where one will break away to in collective liberation. Aaliyah Christina reflects on the performance of J’Sun Howard’s Righteous Beauty.
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“Even if we don’t know its name”: an interview with Benji Hart on World After This One
In anticipation of the Chicago premiere of Benji Hart’s experimental dance piece, World After This One, Tara Aisha Willis meets with Hart to discuss the development of the piece and themes within the(ir) work.
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Art Picks
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March Art Picks
Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for March 2024
Sixty Bilingual
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Deer in Headlights: A Review of Archiving Edging at Roots & Culture
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In this exhibition, artists olivier and Martín Wannam explore ‘anarchiving’—or, producing new and generative relationships with public records of queerness past and present.
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Weapons of Mass Distraction: A reflection on Difference Machines, an exhibition at Wrightwood 659
Tech and its evolution from tools to wearable devices, its nano privacy disruption, its future without us is presented in a dream from el Tío. A dream illustrated by Carlos Matallana in response to ‘Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art’ at Wrightwood 659.
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“Even if we don’t know its name”: an interview with Benji Hart on World After This One
In anticipation of the Chicago premiere of Benji Hart’s experimental dance piece, World After This One, Tara Aisha Willis meets with Hart to discuss the development of the piece and themes within the(ir) work.
Latest Updates
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Call-for-Proposals: Sixty’s Midwest Arts Writers Fellowship
What are the unique working conditions and challenges facing arts workers in the Midwest? Sixty is launching a Midwest Arts Writers Fellowship for two writers to explore these issues and more. Applications are now open!
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A Statement of Solidarity
“The will of the people can’t fail. If we can’t shape the world we live in, if we can’t stop a genocide so miserable is our life.”
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Two Back-to-Back Events Celebrating the Chicago Archives + Artists Project Book!
Celebrate the release of Sixty’s debut book Chicago Archives + Artists Project: Case Studies in Collaboration with two back-to-back events with the recent archive + artist pairings!
Interviews
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Show & Tell: Records and Reflections on Burlesque in Chicago
In this photo essay and interview series, multi-disciplinary artist Erica McKeehen and members of Chicago’s burlesque community reflect on the meaning and importance of burlesque in their life, their fellow performers lives, and its story within the city of Chicago.
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The Atmosphere that Holds Us: an interview with Brittany Nelson on I can’t make you love me
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An interview with Brittany Nelson about her latest exhibition contemplating the vastness of space exploration and the intricacies of unrequited love.
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“Even if we don’t know its name”: an interview with Benji Hart on World After This One
In anticipation of the Chicago premiere of Benji Hart’s experimental dance piece, World After This One, Tara Aisha Willis meets with Hart to discuss the development of the piece and themes within the(ir) work.
On Archives
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Rejecting Neutrality: Reparative Description at the Johnson Publishing Company Archive
A look at the process of reparative description undertaken by the Getty Research Institute’s team at the Johnson Publishing Company Archive.
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Two Back-to-Back Events Celebrating the Chicago Archives + Artists Project Book!
Celebrate the release of Sixty’s debut book Chicago Archives + Artists Project: Case Studies in Collaboration with two back-to-back events with the recent archive + artist pairings!
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The Cookout: A Community-Based Archiving Conversation
Join us for a virtual conversation with the Black Panther Party, Lawndale Pop-Up Spot, alt space Chicago, and the Heaux History Project about archiving and preserving the history of Black Chicago.