“There are many objects that are kind of surprising familiar. We may not have seen them in a long time, but they’re landmarks in material cultural in the U.S.”
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What does it mean to “curate Chicago?”
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Sixty Inches from Center’s new series speaks to three Chicago-based contemporary artists featured in the current exhibition Participatory Arts: Crafting Social Change, at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.
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Sixty Inches from Center considers a darker side of Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair while exploring the Newberry Library’s current exhibition.
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A youth photography class explores the DePaul Art Museum’s current exhibition Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Someday, Chicago, drawing inspiration from the iconic photographer.
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A youth video artist examines the relationship between Keep Moving: Designing Chicago’s Bicycle Culture and bike culture around the city today, in a new video.
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There are only a few weeks left for Chicagoans and city visitors to view the inaugural run of theMART’s extraordinary new public art installation.
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A new illustrated essay by the Ladydrawers Comic Collective explores Chicago’s legacy of queer art and activism, inspired by the exhibition The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity & Politics.
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“Why are there so many great self-taught and outsider artists in Chicago?”
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"I'm fortunate to be in a moment where I don't have to move—the world's coming here."
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Postloudness and Sixty Inches from Center dive into the legacy and impact of one of Chicago’s most influential artists, Dr. Margaret Burroughs, in this podcast special presented as part of Art Design Chicago.
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A look behind the Block Museum’s new exhibition showcasing the legacy and impact of Millie and Morton Goldsholl’s local design studio.
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Two Chicago-based photographers document the less-exposed corners of the city in the tradition of their predecessors.
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Sixty Inches from Center traces the development and impact of the Museum of Vernacular Arts and Knowledge’s “Art Moves” project.
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Sixty Inches from Center looks at juxtapositions of Chicago’s spatial poetics and politics through the exhibition Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Someday, Chicago and contemporary work by today’s artists.
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Sixty Inches from Center examines the exhibiiton Chicago Disability Activism, Arts, and Design: 1970s to Today with interdisciplinary artist and designer Bri Beck.
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Two curators of Chicago artists working outside the mainstream take in each other’s exhibitions, in the second video profile produced between Art Design Chicago and Sixty Inches from Center.
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Continuing the editorial partnership between Sixty Inches from Center and Art Design Chicago, Sixty takes an in-depth look at Rebuild Foundation’s exhibition A Johnson Publishing Story, through the eyes of the artists and archivists inspired by the company’s legacy.
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Free Spirit Media and the Terra Foundation are teaming up to support youth artists responding to Art Design Chicago.
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Gary Zidek, host of the WDCB radio program The Arts Section, recently sat down for a lively discussion with three of the key people involved in Art Design Chicago exhibitions.
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A visual look into the history of public art in Pilsen, from the perspective of the artists who live and create work there.
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Sixty Inches from Center has teamed up with On the Real Film for a look behind the production of the Art Design Chicago exhibition A Home for Surrealism: Fantastic Painting in Midcentury Chicago, on view now at The Arts Club of Chicago.
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In an interview for Art Design Chicago, Cesáreo Moreno, Chief Curator of the National Museum of Mexican’s Art, and organizer of the exhibition Arte Diseño Xicágo: Mexican Inspiration from the World's Columbian Exposition to the Civil Rights Era, spoke about the city’s immigrant past.
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As part of a new editorial partnership between Art Design Chicago and Sixty Inches from Center, Sixty has published a comprehensive and personal look at the exhibition Arte Diseño Xicágo: Mexican Inspiration from the World's Columbian Exposition to the Civil Rights Era from the perspective of, in her own words, an ancestor.
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Art Design Chicago is proud to announce a new editorial partnership with Sixty Inches from Center in an effort to draw connections between the histories explored through Art Design Chicago and the present day.
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