New York City has a long and storied history with jazz. Since the middle of the 20th century, musical giants like Duke Ellington, Buddy Rich, and Billy Strayhorn have graced stages uptown, downtown, and everywhere in between. While jazz wasn’t invented here (that credit belongs to New Orleans), New...
Read moreFKA twigs, thrust plum into the spotlight during a very public courtship with Robert Pattinson, became fodder for a gossip mill one wouldn’t imagine the artist/musician ever had eyes for. The relationship dissolved in 2017, and twigs didn’t release much in terms of music. Now, seven years since the...
Read morePlease Do Not Enter, an expanding mini-chain of exquisitely curated concept stores in Downtown Los Angeles, fills its spaces with items that defy the store’s very title. Sit here, look there, smell this, hold that, try this on: every product is an invitation to admire, engage, and—if you’re wise—purchase....
Read moreFor this May edition of Art Beat, SIXTY chooses a series of exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles that include little-known artists as well as hip-hop moguls. From monumental abstract sculptures to photos taken by a French philosopher, here are some must-see exhibitions. Herewith, your guide to the best shows...
Read moreApril showers bring May flowers, and May itself brings more than enough to do. Cultural events are springing up all over the place this month. To help you navigate the abundance of things to do, SIXTY’s resident culture writer Scott Heins selects six top-notch happenings in New York and...
Read moreJust in time for boat shoe season, Vampire Weekend has released their latest album, Father of the Bride. “This Life” is the kind of pleasant, windows-down, finger-snapping jam the band has perfected since their arrival to the music scene with 2010’s Contra. Buried under the beachy guitar riffs you’ll find...
Read moreIt takes real skill to make the inherently superfluous feel necessary—imperative, even. But that’s precisely what jewelry designer Caitlin Mociun does. As the owner of Mociun, a stunning shop in Williamsburg filled with fine things of all sorts, Caitlin serves as both curator and creator. Here, shelves are lined...
Read moreThis new video from Jesuslesfilles feels especially appropriate given this writer’s warm-weather sighting of not one but two rollerbladers cruising through the streets of New York City this weekend. Oh, what 70-degree days will inspire. The video, with direction from Jonathan Robert and animation by Vincent Desbiens, takes the Montreal-based...
Read moreArianna Grande. Childish Gambino. Tame Impala. You know the headliners of Coachella 2019, sure, but do you have a good enough handle on the lesser knowns? If you can afford to skip the pool parties and take on Indio’s famous heat, you’ll be rewarded with stellar sets from up...
Read moreThere are few companions quite like a book, especially when on the road. (Aren’t books, really, the ultimate trip? Between their pages, an escape hatch – the mind’s getaway of the highest order.) A hotel of the literary sort, SIXTY makes sure to guide its guests towards tomes of...
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