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Announcing Sixty’s 2026 Midwest Arts Writers Fellowship and Critics-in-Residence Program
Announcing the Summer 2026 cohort of Critcs-in-Residence and Midwest Arts Writers Fellows, and the nine regional partners that will host them.
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my mother is a mixed metaphor: An Interview with Shivani Gupta
An intimate multi-generational conversation about the bonds of motherhood.
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Opening Up the Timeline: Jen Everett on photo albums, sonic memory, and Black interiority
In this interview, Jen Everett shares the nostalgia, archives, and family history that lead to the heart of her artistic practice.
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Resources Towards Solidarity, Care, and Community Defense, Expanded
Sixty is collaborating with local artists and organizers to expand our Regional Resource Lists to communities across the Midwest.
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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.
Sixty is a worker-led organization and publishing platform that produces collaborative projects about artists, archival practice, art history, and culture in Chicago and the Midwest. Learn more about our work.
Art Picks
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June Art Picks
Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for June 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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Opening Up the Timeline: Jen Everett on photo albums, sonic memory, and Black interiority
In this interview, Jen Everett shares the nostalgia, archives, and family history that lead to the heart of her artistic practice.
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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.
The Latest Sixty News
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Announcing Sixty’s 2026 Midwest Arts Writers Fellowship and Critics-in-Residence Program
Announcing the Summer 2026 cohort of Critcs-in-Residence and Midwest Arts Writers Fellows, and the nine regional partners that will host them.
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Resources Towards Solidarity, Care, and Community Defense, Expanded
Sixty is collaborating with local artists and organizers to expand our Regional Resource Lists to communities across the Midwest.