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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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Material Futures: Mapping A Closed Gallery’s History
The closure of Goldfinch Gallery marks not an end but a transformation—an emblem of Chicago’s resilient, community-driven art ecosystem where risk, care, and material grit continue to reverberate beyond its walls.
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家庭寻迹
江麟冶在芝加哥 4th Ward Project Space 举办的摄影展 Scavenger Hunt，把家庭旧照与父亲雪藏的文字并置，令人思索：当我们说“我们没有爸爸”时，我们到底在说什么？
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Scavenging Queer (Dis)connections
At 4th Ward Project Space, Linye Jiang’s ‘Scavenger Hunt’ intertwines family photographs and her father’s hidden words, inviting reflections on diaspora, queer kinship, and what it means when entire communities say ‘we don’t have dads’.
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TUNING AWAY FROM MECHANIZED LISTENING: Music making in the window: Access Contemporary Music unveils new concert venue, The CheckOut
In a former 7-Eleven, a new venue is rethinking how classical music lives in the city.
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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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家庭寻迹
江麟冶在芝加哥 4th Ward Project Space 举办的摄影展 Scavenger Hunt，把家庭旧照与父亲雪藏的文字并置，令人思索：当我们说“我们没有爸爸”时，我们到底在说什么？
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Scavenging Queer (Dis)connections
At 4th Ward Project Space, Linye Jiang’s ‘Scavenger Hunt’ intertwines family photographs and her father’s hidden words, inviting reflections on diaspora, queer kinship, and what it means when entire communities say ‘we don’t have dads’.
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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.
Interviews
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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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TUNING AWAY FROM MECHANIZED LISTENING: On Craft, Intention, and the DJ’s Ear
What does care look, feel, and sound like in the creative practice of DJ’ing?
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.”
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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.
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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.”