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Speculative Figuration: A Review of SK Reed’s The Unreal
Who can definitively read a plant’s body? These organisms are complexly self-involved and resist easy prettiness, easy grotesqueness, or easy legibility of any kind.
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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.
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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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Bodies, Bodies, Bodies or A Year in the Life of Alexandra Barbier
Maybe you’ve noticed that, as a society, we tell ourselves certain stories about bodies.
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I am whispering to you
The point at which dances, candles, hymns, shrines, all charged with varied meanings converge and become something new. How did this happen? What has changed?
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Art Picks
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February Art Picks
Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for February 2025.
Sixty Bilingual
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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.
Latest Updates
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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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What We Talk About When We Talk About Censorship: Curators Under Censorship and School as a Function of Empire
The anonymous collective Curators Under Censorship at the School of the Art Institute report having faced censorship from SAIC’s Art School Considerations Committee over elements of their exhibition “School as a Function of Empire”.
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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.
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.