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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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In Access We Trust: A Review of “Don’t mind if I do” at Gallery 400
An exploration of the mechanisms used to interrogate the ways in which disability advocacy is often framed and defined in exhibitions.
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Your Impact Never Ends: How The Legacy of Three Women Still Shapes the Midwest
A look into the lives of Harriet Berg, Penny Gardner, and Grace Stinton—three Midwest women who impacted their local communities and beyond.
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A toxin threatens, but it also beckons
In scent artist agustine zegers’ latest exhibition at Gallery 400, the smell of petroleum summons memory and emotion to explore our paradoxical tenderness for man-made toxins.
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TUNING AWAY FROM MECHANIZED LISTENING: Sound Ecologies: A New Landscape of Music Community
A new classical music collective thrives in Indianapolis.
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In Service of Liberation: An Arts Journalist Attends the 2025 Socialism Conference
More than 2,000 people descended upon McCormick Place convention center in Downtown Chicago this July for Haymarket Books’ annual Socialism Conference. In in this essay, arts journalist Mrittika Ghosh reflects on the various panels, lectures, mixers, and social gatherings she attended during the three-day gathering.
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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October Art Picks
Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for October 2025.
Sixty Bilingual
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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.
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LOS CRYBABYS: A Somewhere in Chicago Story
Migrant communities are under attack by ICE and Los Crybabys aren’t going to let them take Don Jose from La Villita.
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Bonding in Snuggle: Jamila Woods & D-Composed
A video comic review of a sound healing experience presented at Kehrein Center for the Arts.
Interviews
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Your Impact Never Ends: How The Legacy of Three Women Still Shapes the Midwest
A look into the lives of Harriet Berg, Penny Gardner, and Grace Stinton—three Midwest women who impacted their local communities and beyond.
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Unfurling Like a Rose: The Life and Times of Dr. Yaoundé Olu
A glimpse into the life and work of Chicagoan Dr. Yaoundé Olu, a multi-hyphenate artist, gallerist, and member of the Black Arts Movement.
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Dialogue with Simon S. Belleau: Thousand Telephones at Letters to Nora
The artist in dialogue about the wires, seams, and scripts of the spectacle that change the way we experience time and politics on screen.
On Archives
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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.”
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When Clouds Roll Away: A Community Reflection on the Johnson Publishing Company Archives
A look at “When Clouds Roll Away: Reflection and Restoration from the Johnson Archive,” through reflections from attendees, artist Theaster Gates, and the author’s own insights.
The Latest Sixty News
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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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Meet the 2025 Sixty x Bemis Center Critic-in-Residence!
This summer, Pia Singh will be traveling to Bemis Center in Omaha for our fourth annual Critic-in-Residence program!
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Replenishing Sanctuary: A Note on our Summer Slowdown // Una Nota Sobre Nuestro Descanso del Verano
Thoughts on putting people before productivity.