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An Underwater Archive: Xingyu Huang on Beneath Breathing and the Chicago River
Jessica Zi Chen and artist Xingyu Huang on the convergence of living archives, ecology, and community.
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Joseph Josué Mora’s Interventions into Minimalism and Authority
Minimalism often reproduces systemic violence instead of critiquing it. Joseph Josué Mora’s work avoids this common pitfall.
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Las Intervenciones de Joseph Josué Mora en el Minimalismo y la Autoridad
El minimalismo puede reproducir violencia sistémica en lugar de criticarla. Las obras de Joseph Josué Mora evita este error común.
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Unsettling Sweetness: Magicfeifei’s Emancipation Park
A review of Magicfeifei’s solo exhibition at SkyART.
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TUNING AWAY FROM MECHANIZED LISTENING: An Interview with The Vinyl Collectiv
Building a community around listening (to vinyl).
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A gay sculptor is missing from the archives. I want to know why.
Six decades after 32 men were arrested by police and publicly outed by the Chicago Tribune, artist and writer Samuel Schwindt went in search of one of these men, a sculptor, and discovered a specter in the archives.
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Art Picks
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May Art Picks
Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for May 2026.
Sixty Bilingual
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Las Intervenciones de Joseph Josué Mora en el Minimalismo y la Autoridad
El minimalismo puede reproducir violencia sistémica en lugar de criticarla. Las obras de Joseph Josué Mora evita este error común.
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TUNING AWAY FROM MECHANIZED LISTENING: Juanjosé Rivas’s Workshop at Co-Prosperity’s Subversion Camp
A conversation on the idea of planned obsolescence and tech recycling as a means of resistance.
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Sintonizando Fuera del Sonido Automatizado: Juanjose Rivas’ Taller en el Campamento de Subversión de Co-Prosperity
Una conversación sobre la idea de la obsolescencia y el reciclaje tecnológico como resistencia.
REGIONAL RESOURCE LISTS
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Resources Towards Solidarity: Indianapolis
A curated list of resources for community self-defense, basic needs, solidarity, creative caretaking, and organizing in Indianapolis, IN.
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Resources Towards Solidarity: Southwest Michigan
A curated list of resources for community self-defense, basic needs, solidarity, creative caretaking, and organizing in Berrien, Cass, and Van Buren Counties of Michigan.
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Resources Towards Solidarity: Detroit
A curated list of resources for community self-defense, basic needs, solidarity, creative caretaking, and organizing within the Detroit, MI area.
Sixty Lit
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A gay sculptor is missing from the archives. I want to know why.
Six decades after 32 men were arrested by police and publicly outed by the Chicago Tribune, artist and writer Samuel Schwindt went in search of one of these men, a sculptor, and discovered a specter in the archives.
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Blue
A trans woman dreams about her naturalization as a US citizen and the birdlike goddess Cihuateteo from Aztec mythology.
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Skinning the Rabbit: Four Poems by Temperance Aghamohammadi
In excerpts from her forthcoming chapbook “Behnt,” Temperance Aghamohammadi honors the relentless, transformative powers of grief while working against the orthodox tropes.
On Archives
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Chicago Archives + Artists Project: Interview with Siobhan McKissic
Archivist Siobhan McKissic discusses the power of literally holding our histories in our hands and how she approached the Honey Pot Archive with this mindset.
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Chicago Archives + Artists Project: Interview with Honey Pot Performance
Meida Teresa McNeal, Aisha Josina Jean-Baptiste, and Kimeco Roberson discuss the origins and evolution of Honey Pot Performance.
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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?
The Latest Sixty News
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Creative Adaptations: Tracing Experiments in Resistance and Connection
Introducing a new interview series that explores why we do what we do at Sixty.
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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.