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THICK
They say you are what you eat. Does how you eat what you eat matter too?
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Cosmic Docks
What does it mean to find one’s true self? Performer Nora Sharp explores the question in their “trans tall-tale about orbiting the sources of yourself and yearning for clarity in a broken world.”
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Artist Grants Give Communities Power
How have community-based artists grants come to reflect the hearts of neighborhoods such as Chicago’s Albany Park? A writer finds answers.
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Sixty is Officially (Re) Open for Pitches!
Learn about Sixty’s newly-defined publishing priorities and submit your pitch!
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El Sonido Es Mi Brújula
In this bilingual comic, young Chilean sound artist Mauricio Lopéz F. invites us to explore labor and housing practices through sound, kinetics, and new technologies. Some of his work will be exhibited at Comfort Station from June 7-29, 2025.
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Art Picks
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May Art Picks
Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for May 2025.
Sixty Bilingual
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El Sonido Es Mi Brújula
In this bilingual comic, young Chilean sound artist Mauricio Lopéz F. invites us to explore labor and housing practices through sound, kinetics, and new technologies. Some of his work will be exhibited at Comfort Station from June 7-29, 2025.
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The Luck of the Ironlak: a “Somewhere in Chicago” Story
A shipment of Ironlak spray cans arrives with a scavenger hunt map that leads to pots of spray cans protected by duendes at Senka park, but will luck be on the Vandal’s side?
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Gohyang (Hometown)
This poetry collection excavates the turbulence of youth and cultural dissonance, weaving memories of a Korean Ohioan upbringing with the weight of familial bonds, diasporic loss, and the unsettling realities of modern-day Asian fetishization.
Interviews
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See It All the Way Out: Questions of Value and Labor with Samantha Box
What happens when we pause to recognize the images all around us and confront how we are seen by others?
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The Vitality of What Has Always Been: Interview with Sa’dia Rehman
Family displacement, unlived memory, environmental devastation, colonial violence, embodied experience, submergence, and emergence in the work of Sa’dia Rehman.
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webs of interdependencies: an interview on Vampire Bats and more-than-human worlds with Ruth Burke and D Rosen
An interview delving into D Rosen’s exhibition VAMP, which builds empathy and understanding among humans and Bats.
On Archives
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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.
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From Chicago to Montgomery: Connecting the North and South
Connecting Gwendolyn Brooks’ 1971 poem “In Montgomery” and photographs by Moneta Sleet Jr. with the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement for Great Migration-descendant people.
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2024 Chicago Archives + Artists Festival: Embodying the Archive
Join us for our 3rd Chicago Archives + Artists Festival, a three-day gathering that focuses on legacy preservation and archive nurturing for Chicago’s artists, curators, and cultural workers.
The Latest Sixty News
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Sixty is Officially (Re) Open for Pitches!
Learn about Sixty’s newly-defined publishing priorities and submit your pitch!
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Reaffirming Sixty’s Editorial Vision: A 60-Day Pause
The Sixty editorial team is taking 60 days to work on developing a strategic plan that will: reaffirm our values, hone our editorial voice in service of those values, and identify priorities for future publishing.
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Find & Seek: A New Community-Building Initiative
Sixty introduces a new a way for Sixty’s community of artists, cultural workers, and culture lovers to build new connections and spark new relationships throughout the Midwest.