At the ten year mark of Surf by The Social Experiment, member Nico Segal reflects on how the album represents the collective’s musical journey in Chicago: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/a-long-overd...

Exploring why we do what we do at Sixty in a new series of interviews inspired by Dr. MLK’s concept of “creative maladjustments:” sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/creative-ada...

Check out April Art Picks: Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest, curated by Sixty editors in collaboration with our friends at the The Visualist: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/april-art-pi...

In "Blue," féi iká shumarí dreams about her naturalization as a US citizen and the birdlike goddess Cihuateteo from Aztec mythology. Read more: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/blue/

Archivist Siobhan McKissic discusses the power of literally holding our histories in our hands and how she is working within the achives of Honey Pot Perforance with this mindset. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/chicago-arch...

Meida Teresa McNeal, Aisha Josina Jean-Baptiste, and Kimeco Roberson discuss the origins and evolution of Honey Pot Performance, a collective chronicling Afro-feminist and Black diasporic subjectivities amidst the pressures of contemporary global life. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/chicago-arch...

In excerpts from her forthcoming chapbook “Behnt,” Temperance Aghamohammadi honors the relentless, transformative powers of grief while working against the orthodox tropes: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/skinning-the...

In portraits of four BIPOC Chicago photographers, Genesis Falls offers an invitation to witness what often goes unseen in photography—the emotional risk, the quiet discipline, and the deep care behind choosing to capture: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/to-create-is...

Our Resources Towards Solidarity, Care, and Community Defense is a continually growing list of resources for community across Chicagoland. Share with your loved ones, your neighbors, and your networks: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/resources-to...

Charlie Farrell interviews artist Allena Marie Brazier on the Mississippi river’s power and Influence on her practice in the context of a recent show at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/the-mississi...

In three poems, spoken word artist Lakota Kikyo explores a range of themes like financial hardship, white-supremacist colonialism, and spiritual rebirth: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/martyrs-thre...

Personal and collective histories lay at the center of "Shifting Tongues" curated by Danqi Cai at Kansas City's Charlotte Street Foundation: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/codifying-re...

Hakka artists Ivan David Ng and Hai-Wen Lin discuss the origins of their friendship and artistic collaboration and reflect on cultural mythologies of the sky and the folk art practices that inspire their work: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/mountain-cal...

Artists from a variety of backgrounds convene to tell their stories in the service to the community of St. Louis, Missouri. Read the photo essay by Tonal Mondae: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/bearing-witn...

In a “Close to the Clouds” curated by Curator-in-Residence Kathy Cho at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, nine artists explore the unfamiliar terrain of new technologies: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/encountering...

Check out Sixty's March Art Picks calendar for exhibitions, events, festivals and artist talks are happening in your corner of the Midwest! Arts Picks are curated by Sixty editors in collaboration with our friends at The Visualist. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/march-art-pi...

Ruby Que and Kat Bawden speak to Alicja Seledec about their joint exhibition "Kin," memory, collaboration, mothering, and vulnerability: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/remembering-...

In a sequel to her 2019 zine “The Wagons Ain’t Here Yet…”, Joss Barton confronts ongoing genocide, authoritarianism, and cultural violence and resists the necropolitical state through an epic, apoplectic transsexual liturgy: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/wagons-wagon...

Chenoa Baker sees opportunities for the Sixth Architectural Biennial to be more radical in a moment shaped by the planning of the CTA Red Line Extension, ongoing debates around public housing, and continued displacement: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/through-the-...

Vera Blossom asks: does paying men for their time, insight, or bodies allow you to be truly unfiltered and selfish? sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/patronage/

Juanjosé Rivas speaks about leading a workshop during Co-Prosperity's Subversion Camp in Chicago last summer where participants were invited to build hybrid instruments from recycled and obsolete technology. Read more in english y español: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/sintonizando...

What can exorcism teach us about writing, gendered power, and agency? Christina Nafziger explores the question: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/arts-writing...

On October 9th, 2025, 150+ people attended Signal Overload, an evening of live video art, electronic music, film, and poetry at the Starlite Drive-In Theatre in Bloomington, Indiana. Ian Carstens reflects on the experimental gathering: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/reflecting-o...

En la última exposición del artista agustine zegers en la Galería 400, el olor a petróleo evoca recuerdos y emociones para explorar nuestra paradójica ternura hacia las toxinas creadas por el hombre. Lee más en español y ingles: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/una-toxina-a...

Wondering what exhibitions, events, and artist talks are happening in your corner of the Midwest? We've got your covered! Check out our Art Picks calendar for February: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/february-art...

Artist and curator Zola Rollins interviews Eve Emrich and Jamie Hopkin of Quilt Church, a Chicago community quilting project where people work side-by-side to learn a technique rooted in softness, tension, and binding: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/getting-to-k...

Interdisciplinary artist Jared Brown speaks with poet Noa Micaela Fields on the symbiotic relationships between Chicago's queer nightlife, intimacy, community, and art before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/extended-bre...

Sixty is accepting pitches for writing and comix for 2026! Learn more about what we're looking for and how to pitch your work at sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/2025-pitch-t...

In this edition of Tuning Away from Mechanized Listening, Livy Snyder speaks to writer, curator, and sensory artist Teddy Sandler about Sonic Resonance— an experimental gathering for DJs somewhere between retreat and residency in rural Wisconsin. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/tuning-way-f...

From November 26 to January 4th, we will not be reviewing new pitches, collaboration proposals, or other requests, in order to truly rest and nourish ourselves, our loves, and our communities. Publishing on our website and social media will slow. We wish you rest, warmth and joy this winter. ❤️

Work with us! Sixty is hiring up to ten Regional Resource Editors and one Critic-in-Residence Program Editor. These positions are remote and open to anyone based in the Midwest. Learn more and apply: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/about/join-o...

“Aanin. Boozhoo. Gimaadaadizimin noon gom.” (Hello. Greetings. We are starting now.) This is the opening invocation of the Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak, a Minnesota radio station that broadcasts bilingually in English and the Ojibwemowin language. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/tuning-away-...

"and what they won’t tell you is that half of it is yours..." Chicago’s inaugural Youth Poet Laureate E'mon Lauren explores femme rage, racialized beauty standards, class, lineage, and hustling to make ends meet in three new poems. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/finessing-is...

Light dazzles. It tricks, it confounds. A turn of the light. Katy Kim reviews Jarod Lew's "Strange You Never Knew" at University of Michigan Museum of Art: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/strange-you-...

Amalia Tenuta interviews Zante Moore about their debut solo show IJBOL Fields at Chicago's Happy Gallery, and about growing up online, race, loss, and the emotional weight of digital culture. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/memes-as-mou...

"Why would you even be a poet if you weren’t willing to bare yourself to yourself?" Two poets connect on shared experiences of living with disability, and dive into the background that drove the poems which blossomed into a debut book: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/hardly-creat...

Outfitted at UIC's Gallery 400, "Don’t mind if I do" adventurously models accessibility and accommodation. Read the review by by Lucas Gòmez-Doyle: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/in-access-we...

Sixty's Art Picks is a monthly calendar of art exhibitions and events all over the Midwest, curated by Sixty editors in collaboration with our friends at The Visualist. Explore what's happening near you: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/november-art...

Veronica Kirin interviews Harriet Berg, Penny Gardner, and Grace Stinton— three Michigan women whose art, teaching, and advocacy has had lasting impacts across the Midwest and beyond: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/your-impact-...

Una activación de Marquette Park a través de la Residencia Curatorial Anchor inspira esta reflexión ecfrástica por Carlos Flores: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/lo-que-la-ti...

Emily Gastineau, a writer embedded in the latest dance work of Minneapolis-based artist José A. Luis, examines the process of transforming writing to choreography to performance. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/work-rest-lo...

In this animated comic by Carlos Matallana, an immersive sound healing experience by Jamila Woods and chamber music collective D-Composed combines music and movement. Read the comic: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/bonding-in-s...

Megan Bickel spoke with Simon S. Belleau about the wires, seams, and scripts of the spectacle that change the way we experience time and politics on screen that the artist interrogates in their recent exhibition, Thousand Telephones at Letters to Nora. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/dialogue-wit...

In Indianapolis, new classical classical music collective Sound Ecologies is cultivating a thriving new music scene. Read the interview by Camille Arnett: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/tuning-into-...

In scent artist agustine zegers’ latest exhibition at UIC's Gallery 400, the smell of petroleum summons memory and emotion to explore our paradoxical tenderness for man-made toxins. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/a-toxin-thre...

Last July, Mrittika Ghosh attended the 2025 Social Conference at Chicago's McCormick Center. While she arrived wondering how the wider left sees art, she left with the question: how can artists make revolution irresistible? sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/in-service-o...

2025 Bemis Center Critic-in-Residence Pia Singh reflects on inter-connectedness and upheaval in the struggle to save the planet's water from capitalism in the exhibition “Great Lakes, Great Plains” sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/at-waters-ed... @bemiscenter.bsky.social

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 Katz Tepper’s exhibition at Prairie Chicago. Read the review by Noa Micaela Fields: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/patient-xero...

Looking at a map of northern Illinois, you’ll find Rockford halfway between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River; this post-industrial city also represents a midpoint in my coming of age. My review of THE ROCKFORD ANTHOLOGY, @sixtyinchesfromcenter.org: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/midway-to-ho...

“Let’em cook.” “Stop it. You can’t say that. It’s not you,” Mateo chides. “What’chu mean? That’s what our generation says, don’t they?” Read Chenoa Baker's conversation with her brother about "We Built This: Making Through Migration" at Zhou B Art Center: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/art-in-sibli...