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Review of We. The Culture: Works by The Eighteen Art Collective at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
The exhibit at IMA Newfield’s highlights a collective with tremendous talents, though it can still feel like an attempt to rectify the institution’s racist past.
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Interview with Chicago Ihanktonwan Dakota artist, David Bernie
David Bernie talks about the role of art and love, making during the pandemic and the 2020 uprisings, the colonizer mentality in non-profits, and why the garden is his creative space right now.
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Touch Grass: A Review of Liz’s Childhood Computer: 2003 – 2005 at Prairie
After recovering photographs, school assignments, videos, and digital collages from her childhood computer, artist Liz Vitlin reflects on girlhood, consciousness, and online image-making.
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From Figure to Abstraction with Paul Verdell
Detroit artist Paul Verdell talks about figuration, abstraction, and his recent pivot in a new direction in his overall practice.
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Overlap: Anna Kavan & me
A writer encounters a writer who encountered her unaccepted self and suddenly this eclipse revealed selves that nobody knew existed. Identity’s so weird.
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On Balance & Play: Tetsuya Yamada’s Shallow River
The artist’s latest collection of sculptures at Midway Gallery uses craft and a sense of play to highlight our connection to the natural world.
Art Picks
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November Art Picks
Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for November 2022.
Sixty News
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CANJE: A note on what we gained and learned about cultural criticism
A look at Sixty’s first iteration of CANJE, a 5-session cultural ‘critique’ program that took place in the summer of 2022.
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Make it Last Forever: A Digital Preservation Workshop
Join archivist and memory worker Zakiya Collier for a workshop on low-cost and free tools and services for your digital preservation needs.
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Sixty’s Print Dreams Come True with For the Birds Trapped in Airports
Sixty is thrilled to announce the expansion of our ongoing print and book partnership and a few print projects coming your way in 2023!
Arts in the Midwest
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From Figure to Abstraction with Paul Verdell
Detroit artist Paul Verdell talks about figuration, abstraction, and his recent pivot in a new direction in his overall practice.
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A Review of Artist Run Spaces at the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati
The show explores artist-run spaces throughout Ohio and northern Kentucky — spaces where exhibitions, poetry readings, radical events, teachings, concerts, and other forms of cultural community organizing occur on a quasi-regular basis.
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Stepping In and Seeing Through with Artist Kelly Clare
Kelly Clare embraces the visceral quality of materials, never turning away an opportunity to acquire discarded objects and pair them in unlikely ways.
Art Design Chicago
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Making Down Time: Curator Leslie Wilson on the Art of Retreat
All exhibitions are experiments. It’s always a petri dish. So you’re running an experiment and as you see people interact with it and you see them respond, that’s your data. You’re collecting it and you’re understanding the show better.
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The Last Walk: A Tour Through Washington Park, Chicago
The right walk through a park can be beautiful and historical. This photographic walk shows us harmony in between.
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Washington Park Camera Club Celebrates Olmsted 200: South Park Then & Now
The Washington Park Camera Club revisits the history of Jackson Park, Washington Park, and Midway Plaisance in a contemporary context with a series of walking tours and photo essays.
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Building a Home for Muses: An Interview with Art Preserve Curator Laura Bickford on Ray Yoshida’s Collections
Jen Torwudzo-Stroh talks to Art Preserve curator Laura Bickford about the late Ray Yoshida’s object-collecting as an expressive art in its own right and the connections of everyday objects.
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Social Art and Performing Art Criticism: Lori Waxman at Weinberg/Newton Gallery
With her project “60 wrd/min art critic”, Lori Waxman shows us how the niche relationship between artist and critic can be used to bolster social ties in the greater community outside of the insular art world.
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On Black Presidential Portraits, Punchlines, and Power with Ross Stanton Jordan
Reflections on nearly a century of fictional and speculative Black president portrayals, artists’ responses to the Obama era, and the power of comedy.