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The Radical Memory Work of {B/qKC}: Interview With Nasir Anthony Montalvo
Yashi Davalos interviews Nasir Montalvo of the Black Queer KC Archive and the Kansas City Defender on their multi-location exhibit debuting the first Black queer archive of Kansas City.
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Come In, Get Comfortable: Stepping Into Chicago’s Queer History with the South Asia Institute
People Who Came Before Us invites audiences into a long history of desi queer artists and activists through spacemaking and archives.
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Disneylandia for Functioning Alcoholics: a Dark Lord Day Comic
Rebels with a cause enjoying A Dark Lord Day Festival at 3 Floyds Brewery in Munster, Indiana, among those without any idea what a cause is.
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Tracing the Ecologies of Memory: A Review of Captured Earth at the Museum of Contemporary Photography
Can a photography exhibition provide an antidote to solastalgia?
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Hanif Abdurraqib Invites Us Home
Shivani Kumar talks to Hanif Abdurraqib about his profound love for Columbus, Ohio, and exploring his deep-rooted connections to the city through his evocative reflections on basketball and community in his new book.
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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.
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Art Picks
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July Art Picks
Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for July 2024
Sixty Bilingual
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Disneylandia for Functioning Alcoholics: a Dark Lord Day Comic
Rebels with a cause enjoying A Dark Lord Day Festival at 3 Floyds Brewery in Munster, Indiana, among those without any idea what a cause is.
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Spread the Knowledge: a “Somewhere In Chicago” Story
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Buflo travels to the past to show his younger self the do’s and don’ts of graffiti in hope he spreads the knowledge to the generations to come.
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Look Longer: Reflections on Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris
Ghosh and roach go on a journey across the city to a multi-venue and multi-neighborhood project Opening Passages that de-centers the Loop as the main hub for cultural creativity in Chicago.
Latest Updates
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Meet Sixty’s Midwest Arts Writers Fellowship Cohort!
Meet the inaugural Fellows and Runner-Ups for the Midwest Arts Writers Fellowship: Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond, Yonci Jameson, Juleana Enright, and Nasreen Khan.
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An Open Letter to the Chicago Public Library Foundation from the Cultural Workers for Palestine Chicago
An Open Letter to the Chicago Public Library Foundation from the Cultural Workers for Palestine Chicago.
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Meet This Year’s Sixty + Bemis Center Critic-in-Residence
Sixty and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts are once again partnering on our annual Critic-in-Residence Program, bringing one of Sixty’s writers to Omaha!
Interviews
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The Radical Memory Work of {B/qKC}: Interview With Nasir Anthony Montalvo
Yashi Davalos interviews Nasir Montalvo of the Black Queer KC Archive and the Kansas City Defender on their multi-location exhibit debuting the first Black queer archive of Kansas City.
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Hanif Abdurraqib Invites Us Home
Shivani Kumar talks to Hanif Abdurraqib about his profound love for Columbus, Ohio, and exploring his deep-rooted connections to the city through his evocative reflections on basketball and community in his new book.
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Confiar No Processo: Uma Entrevista Com Diana Motta Sobre Pintura e Espiritualidade
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Formada em astrologia e na filosofia da kabbalah, Diana Motta vê a pintura abstrata como uma prática que permite que o conhecimento místico encontre expressão através do corpo.
On Archives
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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.
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‘Space is the Place’ and Parks Are Where It’s At: Black Creativity in Public Parks
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Public parks have been idealized as sanctuaries in the concrete jungle, and critiqued as landmarks of gentrification. But what if we reclaimed parks as sites of possibility, democracy, and Black creativity?
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Good Words and Good Works: Greg Bae, CV at Bill’s Auto
A reflection on CV, an innovative archival project preserving the legacy and work of Gregory Bae, an artist deeply intertwined with the fabric of Chicago.