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Toys Are Us: Deborah Simon’s Embroidered Morphologies at the International Museum of Surgical Science
The artist’s sculptures of bears and rabbits present the consequences of power, the reckoning of ecological crisis and capitalism’s spiritual lack.
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QTVC Live! and the Roots of Hustle Culture
A profile on artist advocate, organizer, and host of DIY shopping channel QTVC Live!, Julia Arredondo, on her goals and dreams for the program.
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Since Lust
In this prose poem inspired by the writer Mary Ruefle, Frances Emilia slips between nostalgia and presence as she reflects on womanhood and lust.
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Review of Still Together at Saint Kate Arts Hotel
In Rachel Collier’s Milwaukee exhibition, the artist invites us to connect with colors, shapes, and textures that elicit familiar emotions, such as excitement, longing, and nostalgia.
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Root of Two: On Darkness
Maya Dunietz’ exhibition at the Bemis Center opened its audience to the possibilities of the darkness, sleep, danger, and emptiness.
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Figures in the Landscape: Pao Houa Her’s Paj qaum ntuj / Flowers of the Sky
Through still and moving images, Pao Houa Her prods at the boundaries between landscape and portraiture, identity and place, human and earth.
Art Picks
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February Art Picks
Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for February 2023.
News
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Pre-Order Now! Something To Look Forward To and Chicago Archives + Artists Project: Case Studies in Collaboration
Be the first in line to receive these upcoming publishing projects from Sixty and For The Birds Trapped in Airports. Pre-orders come with a limited edition gift for you or the art book lovers in your life.
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Out of Office: A Note on Sixty’s Year-End Slowdown
A message from the Sixty team about our collective slowdown from December 1st to January 29th.
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Writings on Life and Labor in the Arts: A MdW Atlas Collaboration
Essays and reflections on doing less, wanting more, healing, and caring for ourselves, written by Kate Bowen, Onyx Montes, and Lauren Williams, guest edited by Tempestt Hazel and Mairead Case of MDW Fair.
Arts in the Midwest
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Root of Two: On Darkness
Maya Dunietz’ exhibition at the Bemis Center opened its audience to the possibilities of the darkness, sleep, danger, and emptiness.
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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.