Articles by Erin Sickler

Pardon This Brief Commercial Interruption: Ghana Think Tank

by Erin Sickler | Jun 6, 2010

Pardon This Brief Commercial Interruption: Ghana Think Tank

by Erin Sickler | Jun 6, 2010

In 2006, Christopher Robbins, John Ewing, and Matey Odonkor came together to form Ghana Think Tank, a problem-creating project with the motto Developing the First World. Drawing from their experiences …

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Change

by Erin Sickler | Jun 3, 2010

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Change

by Erin Sickler | Jun 3, 2010

Lin + Lam (Lana Lin and Lan Thao Lam) are the current fellows at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School University in New York. …

Flash Points

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Economies of Scale or Too Big to Fail?

by Erin Sickler | Jun 1, 2010

Flash Points

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Economies of Scale or Too Big to Fail?

by Erin Sickler | Jun 1, 2010

In 1934, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis coined the phrase “the curse of bigness” to describe the disastrous effect that concentrated economic power can have on small business, communities, and …

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Liz Magic Laser

by Erin Sickler | May 27, 2010

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Liz Magic Laser

by Erin Sickler | May 27, 2010

Currently on view at Derek Eller Gallery in New York, Liz Magic Laser’s chase (2009) stems from interpretation of Bertolt Brecht’s Man Equals Man (1926), performed by eight different actors …

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Intro

by Erin Sickler | May 24, 2010

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Intro

by Erin Sickler | May 24, 2010

The United States has always fostered a strange and ambiguous relationship to the arts.  In 1825, John Quincy Adams recommended that the country establish a national university, observatory, and other …