-
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.
-
Tuning Into Mechanized Listening: Sound Ecologies: A New Landscape of Music Community
A new classical music collective thrives in Indianapolis.
-
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.
-
Patient Xerox: A Review of Katz Tepper’s Pharmacy Receipts
Pharmacy receipts become a paper trail and paraphernalia of a personal medical record, testifying to the body as a fragile, relational archive of evolving needs in interdisciplinary artist Katz Tepper’s exhibition at Prairie, Chicago.
-
Art in Siblingo: Talking Migration, Quilts, and Teleportation Powers at Zhou B Art Center
In a conversation with her brother, writer and educator Chenoa Baker explores the meaning of migration and movement via Zhou B Art Center’s exhibition We Built This : Making Through Migration.
-
The Risky Sex, or Why I’m Befriending Men
In her search for connection, a woman dares to ask: Are men capable of friendship?
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
-
October Art Picks
Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for October 2025.
Sixty Bilingual
-
Lo Que La Tierra Carga
Una activación de Marquette Park a través de la Residencia Curatorial Anchor inspira esta reflexión ecfrástica.
-
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.
-
Bonding in Snuggle: Jamila Woods & D-Composed
A video comic review of a sound healing experience presented at Kehrein Center for the Arts.
Interviews
-
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.
-
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.
-
Tuning Away From Mechanized Listening: Interview with Madeleine Aguilar and Jordan Knecht
The fourth installment of this series brings in a conversation with artists making work that leads people to find their groove and delves into what that means in practice, and as a practice.
On Archives
-
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.”
-
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.
-
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.
The Latest Sixty News
-
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.”
-
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!
-
Replenishing Sanctuary: A Note on our Summer Slowdown // Una Nota Sobre Nuestro Descanso del Verano
Thoughts on putting people before productivity.