Our Art Picks are created in collaboration with The Visualist, Chicago’s leading visual arts calendar, and cross-promoted through Windy City Times, one of the longest locally-published LGBTQ weeklies with a national reach. This is a growing list, so check back often for new additions.
Throughout 2018 we will be highlighting exhibitions and events that are part of Art Design Chicago 
, a year-long celebration of the unique and vital role Chicago plays as America’s crossroads of art and design, creativity and commerce, organized by the Terra Foundation for American Art. As part of an editorial partnership with Illinois Humanities, Sixty will also be highlighting events that are part of Envisioning Justice 
, a 19-month project that looks into how Chicagoans and Chicago artists respond to the the impact of incarceration in local communities and how the arts and humanities are used to devise strategies for lessening this impact.
Featured
Mon, Sept 3, 3-7pm
Living Architecture
6018NORTH (6018 N Kenmore Av)
Free
Thurs, Sept 6, 6-8pm
Participatory Arts: Crafting Social Change
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum (800 S Halsted St)
Free
Fri, Sept 7, 6-9pm
Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez & Darryl DeAngelo Terrell
Roots & Culture (1034 N Milwaukee Av)
Free
Fri, Sept 7, 5-8pm
Hương Ngô: Reap the Whirlwind
Aspect/Ratio (864 N Ashland Av)
Free
Sat, Sept 8, 7-10pm
Udita Upadhyaya: nevernotmusic
Tritriangle (1550 N Milwaukee Av)
Free
Sept 13 – Dec 30, 2018, Opening Sept 13th
The Time Is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960–1980
Smart Museum of Art (5550 South Greenwood Av)
Free
Fri, Sept 14, 5-8pm
Chicago Disability Activism, Arts, and Design: 1970s to Today
Gallery 400 (400 S Peoria St)
Free
Sat, Sept 15, 5-8pm
Shadi Habib Allah: Put to Rights
The Renaissance Society (5811 S Ellis Ave, 4th Fl)
Free
Sat, Sept 15 – Sun, Sept 16, 7-10pm
Radioactive: Stories from Beyond the Wall
Cook County Jail (26th and Francisco)
Free
Thurs, Sept 27, 6-8pm
Blackness and the Media, Past to Present
Stony Island Arts Bank (6760 S Stony Island Av)
Free
Fri, Sept 28 – Dec 21, 2018
Krista Franklin: “…to take root among the stars.”
with Rae Chardonnay Taylor, Aricka Foreman, Kara Jackson, and Jamila Woods.
Poetry Foundation (61 W Superior St)
Free
**read our latest article featuring Krista and her use of Johnson publications in her work here.**
Sat, Sept 29, 11am-5pm
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for Latinx and Latin American Literature
Poetry Foundation (61 W Superior St)
Free
Sat, Sept 29, 1-6pm
Creative Chicago: An Interview Marathon
Navy Pier (600 E Grand Av)
$20-40
Sun, Sept 30, 3-4pm
Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply
Navy Pier (600 E Grand Av)
$20-40
September 29-30, 2018
International Chicago Underground Queer Transcendence Symposium (ICUQTS)
2134 S Troy St
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September Art Picks
Up through October 28th
The Art of Being Dangerous
Hyde Park Art Center (5020 S Cornell Ave)
Free
Sat, Sept 1, 5-8pm
Alberto Aguilar and Alex Bradley Cohen: Rest in Place
Comfort Station Logan Square (2579 W Logan Blvd)
Free
Sat, Sept 1, 6-9pm
Gwendolyn Zabicki: Windows, Doors, and Mirrors
Roman Susan (1224 W Loyola Ave)
Free
Sat, Sept 1, 8pm-12am
PrEP4Love presents September Kickback
The Breathing Room (1434 W 51st)
Free
Sun, Sept 2, 11am-8pm
8th Annual: Slow&Low: Chicago Lowrider Festival
Cermak Road and Loomis Street
Free
Sun, Sept 2, 2-4pm
Aloe Planting Workshop with Petty Crocker
The Breathing Room Space (1434 W 51st)
Free
Sun, Sept 2, 9pm-12am
Norman W. Long: Electro-Acoustic Dubcology I-IV
Elastic Arts (3429 W Diversey #208)
$5
Tues, Sept 4, 6-8pm
Tonika Lewis Johnson in conversation with Paola Aguirre
Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) (820 N Michigan Av)
Free
Tues, Sept 4, 7pm
Papelitos Guardados/Paper Memories
Pulaski Park Fieldhouse (1419 W Blackhawk St)
Free
Wed, Sept 5, 2-3pm
Sculpting a Chicago Artist: Gallery Talk
Koehnline Museum of Art (1600 E Golf Rd)
Free
Wed, Sept 5, 6:30-8:30pm
In-Session featuring Tarnynon Onumonu and Collaborators
Threewalls (2738 W North Av)
Free
Wed, Sept 5, 7-9pm
The Wayfarer
Poetry Foundation (61 W Superior St)
Free
Thurs, Sept 6, 5-7pm
Good News
Ralph Arnold Gallery, Loyola University Chicago (1131 W Sheridan Rd)
Free
Thurs, Sept 6, 5:30-8pm
Todros Geller: Strange Worlds
Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership (610 S Michigan Av)
Free
Thurs, Sept 6, 5:30-6:30pm
James Webb with the American Religious Sounds Project
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall (111 S Michigan Av)
Free
Thurs, Sept 6, 6-8pm
Public Newsroom 77: Reframing Conversations on Racism
Experimental Station, Build Coffee (6100 S Blackstone Av)
Free
Thurs, Sept 6, 6-8pm
MEX talks 2018
Goodman Theatre (170 N Dearborn St)
$5-35
Thurs, Sept 6, 6-8pm
Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Someday, Chicago
DePaul Art Museum (935 W Fullerton Av)
Free
Thurs, Sept 6, 6-8pm
Whitney Bradshaw: Outcry
DePaul Art Museum (935 W Fullerton Av)
Free
Fri, Sept 7, 5-8pm
TUNED MASS
Chicago Cultural Center (78 E Washington St)
Free
Fri, Sept 7, 6pm-12am
Meeting Of Styles USA – Chicago
CAMP/US (2883 N Milwaukee Av)
Free
Fri, Sept 7, 6pm
Sandra Antongiorgi & Nate Love
Center on Halsted (3656 N Halsted St)
Free
Fri, Sept 7, 6-8pm
Artist walk-through with Alison Ruttan and Orkideh Torabi
Weinberg/Newton Gallery (300 W Superior St, Ste 203)
Free
Fri, Sept 7, 6-9pm
Eduardo Kac: Inner Telescope
Sector 2337 + The Green Lantern Press (2337 N Milwaukee Av)
Free
Fri, Sept 7, 6-10pm
What would Frida Say?
Pilsen Outpost (1637 W 18th St)
Free
Fri, Sept 7, 6:30-8pm
Body Language
Access Living of Metro Chicago (115 W Chicago Av)
Free
Fri, Sept 7, 7:30pm
Meet Juan(ito) Doe
Free Street Theater (4346 S Ashland Av)
Free
Sat, Sept 8, 2018
Treasures from the White City: The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893
The Richard H. Driehaus Museum (40 E Erie St)
$10-20
Sat, Sept 8, 11am-5pm
The Figure and the Chicago Imagists: Selections from the Elmhurst College Art Collection
Elmhurst Art Museum (150 Cottage Hill Av)
Free
Sat, Sept 8, 2pm
Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Someday, Chicago: Curator Tour
DePaul Art Museum (935 W Fullerton Av)
Free
Sat, Sept 8, 5-9pm
DaSouL! Where artistic Genres Collide
Houston Park (5001 S Cottage Grove)
Free
Sat, Sept 8, 4-10pm
FEAST Festival at Douglas
Douglas Park (1401 S Sacramento Dr)
Free
Sat, Sept 8th / Sat, Sept 15th
Light Up The Night: South Side Community Art Center’s Artists + Models Ball / 53rd Annual Art Auction
Gallery Guichard (436 E 47th St)
$75-150
Sat, Sept 9, 6-9pm
Alienable Rights
Slow (2153 W 21st St)
Free
Sun, Sept 9, 12-4pm
Living Architecture: Water Music on the Beach
6018NORTH (6018 N Kenmore Av)
Free
Sun, Sept 9, 2pm
2nd Sunday Community Binding at Read/Write Library
Read/Write Library Chicago (914 N California Av)
Free
Sun, Sept 9, 2-4pm
Jordan Martins: Butter and Tin
The Franklin (3522 W Franklin Blvd)
Free
Sun, Sept 9, 3-5pm
Counter Balance: The Power of Integrated Dance
Center on Halsted (3656 N Halsted St)
$5-20
Sun, Sept 9, 3-6pm
Esau McGhee: Untitled (How Does It Feel)
GOLDFINCH (319 N Albany Av)
Free
Mon, Sept 10, 6-7:30pm
Amanda Williams
The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium (230 S Columbus Dr)
Free
Tues, Sept 11, 5:30-8pm
Rally To #EndMoneyBail: Art Party
Chicago Freedom School (719 S State St, 4th Fl)
Free
Tues, Sept 11, 6-7pm
Barbara Ransby: Making All Black Lives Matter
The Seminary Co-op Bookstores (5751 S Woodlawn Av)
Free
Tues, Sept 11, 6-7:30pm
Wish You Were Here: Postcards and Visual Culture
Newberry Library (60 W Walton St)
Free
Tues, Sept 11, 6:30-8:30pm
Nnedi Okorafor
American Writers Museum (180 N Michigan Ave, 2nd Fl)
$6-12
Thurs, Sept 13, 6-7pm
Film in Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago (111 S Michigan Av)
Free
Thurs, Sept 13, 6-8pm
Stan Vanderbeek: Euclidean Illusions
Conversations at the Edge (164 N State St)
$6-11
Fri, Sept 14, 5-8pm
Remembrance/Resistance
Weinberg/Newton Gallery (300 W Superior St, Fl 2)
Free
September 14 – October 28, 2018
Opening Reception: Tue, Sept 25, 6-8pm
Candice Lin: A Hard White Body, A Porous Slip
Logan Center for the Arts (915 E 60th St)
Free
Fri, Sept 14, 7-9pm
Nick Briz and Anna Russett
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (220 E Chicago Av)
$8-10
Fri, Sept 14, 5-8pm
Edie Fake: Gut Rehab
Western Exhibitions (1709 W Chicago Av)
Free
Fri, Sept 14, 7-11pm
not to scale
Heaven Gallery (1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Fl)
Free
Sat, Sept 15, 11am – 6pm
Celebrating South Side Stories
Various Locations
Free
Sat, Sept 15, 7-9pm
Film Screening: The First Lions
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (2320 W Chicago Av)
Free
Sat, Sept 15, 6-10pm
Opening Reception: Paul Branton
Young Chicago Authors (1180 N. Milwaukee Av)
Free
Sat, Sept 15, 5-8pm
Bethany Collins: Undersong
PATRON (673 N Milwaukee Av)
Free
Sat, Sept 15, 6-9pm
José Santiago Pérez: Flirting with Infinitudes
Wedge Projects (1448 W Howard St)
Free
Sat, Sept 15, 7-9pm
The Dollhouse Reading Series Special Pop-Up
Sector 2337 + The Green Lantern Press (2337 N Milwaukee Av)
Free
Sun, Sept 16, 2-6pm
Chicago Overground: Live on Worldwide FM
Co-Prosperity Sphere (3219 S Morgan St)
Free
Tues, Sept 18, 2018
Up is Down: Mid-century Experiments in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl studio
Block Museum of Art (40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston)
Free
Tues, Sept 18, 6-7:30pm
Reveca Torres
Gallery 400 (400 S Peoria St)
Free
Thurs, Sept 20, 6-8pm
Camilo Restrepo: Ghosts and Songs
Conversations at the Edge (164 N State St)
Free
Thurs, Sept 20, 6-8pm
George Kokines: Layers Revealed
National Hellenic Museum (333 S Halsted St)
Free
Fri, Sept 21, 5-8pm
The Annual: Mixtapes for the Next Millennium
Chicago Artists Coalition (2130 W Fulton St)
Free
Fri, Sept 21, 6pm
Young Lords 50th Anniversary Conference
DePaul University
Free
Fri, Sept 21, 6-7pm
Julian Randall: Refuse
The Seminary Co-op Bookstores (5751 S Woodlawn Av)
Free
Fri, Sept 21, 9pm
Pay it No Mind Ball
(5110 S Prairie Av)
Free
Sat, Sept 22, 11am-7:30pm
Year of Creative Youth Festival
Chicago Cultural Center (78 E Washington St)
Free
Sat, Sept 22, 6-7pm
Woman’s Club: Angela Lopez: Bodies of Water
Roman Susan (7077 N Ashland Av)
Free
Sat, Sept 22, 6-10pm
Local Comfort
LVL3 Gallery (1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3rd)
Free
Sat, Sept 22, 7-10pm
Open History, Open Future
Gerber Hart Library and Archives (6500 N Clark St)
Free
Sat, Sept 22, 7:15-9:45pm
Cortadito: Panorama Latinx short film showcase
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (164 N State St)
$6-11
Sept 23-Oct 7, 2018
Graveyard Shift
Goodman Theatre (170 N Dearborn St)
Free
Sun, Sept 23, 12-8pm
Boombastic 2018
Wicker Park (1425 N Damen Av)
Free
Tue, Sept 25, 6-8pm
Candice Lin: A Hard White Body, a Porous Slip
Logan Center Exhibitions (915 E 60th St)
Free
Tue, Sept 25, 7-9pm
Charlene Carruthers: Unapologetic
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts (915 E 60th St)
Free
Wed, Sept 26, 6-7:30pm
Photography & the Refugee Crisis
Art Works Projects (625 N. Kingsbury St)
Free
Wed, Sept 26, 6-8pm
Jonas Wood: Tennis Court Drawings
Shane Campbell Gallery (2021 S Wabash Av)
Free
Thurs, Sept 27, 5-9pm
EXPO CHICAGO: The International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art
Navy Pier (600 E Grand Av)
Get Tickets
Thurs, Sept 27, 6-8pm
Margaret Tait: Poems and Portraits
Conversations at the Edge (164 N State St)
$6-11
Thurs, Sept 27, 7-8pm
Akrilica: Reading With Carolina Ebeid, Manuel Paul López & Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
Poetry Foundation (61 W Superior St)
Free
Fri, Sept 28, 2018
Pictures from an Exposition: Visualizing the 1893 World’s Fair
Newberry Library (60 W Walton St)
Free
Sept 28, 29, 30, 11:30am-6:30pm
Expo Chicago Dialogues
Navy Pier (600 E Grand Av)
$20-40
Fri, Sept 28, 6-9pm
Art After Hours
City-wide
Free
Fri, Sept 28, 6-10pm
Resisting With Dignity / Resistiendo con Dignidad
Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center (4046 W Armatige Av)
Free
Sat, Sept 29, 2018
AfriCOBRA 50
Kavi Gupta Gallery (219 N Elizabeth St)
Free
Sat, Sept 29, 6-8pm
Art on theMART
Merchandise Mart (222 W Merchandise Mart Plz)
Free
Sat, Sept 29, 9pm-2am
Azikiwe Mohammed DJ’s Waydown
Ace Hotel Chicago (311 N Morgan)
Free
Sat, Sept 29, 10am-4pm
The Chicago Black Social Culture Map: Community Archiving Day & Web Launch
Links Hall (3111 N. Western)
$0 – $40
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Featured Image: A compilation image that includes photos of six of the artists featured as part of Art Design Chicago’s Creative Chicago: An Interview Marathon, a free, five-hour series of interviews with artists, authors, architects, and others representing Chicago’s diverse creative community, presented by Chicago Humanities Festival.
