Art, Money, and the Renaissance: Re-Imagining the Relationship
Part of the Art, Money, and the Renaissance blog series Silicon Valley didn’t invent the “gig economy.” On ...Read More
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Christopher Schardt: from Engineering to Aesthetics
In the deep playa darkness between the city and the perimeter, a wave of music slips around you. Not the ...Read More
Can Burning Man do for fundraising what it’s done for art? A thought experiment about development.
If we want the world to be more like Burning Man, then artists have to be able to make a ...Read More
Michael Garlington: “The Horror and the Wonder”
It’s the ability of Garlington’s art to encompass both those extremes that most inspires me: the images may be fantastical ...Read More
Can Burning Man Balance the “Art” and “History” in “Art History?” Should It Have To?
If we can’t take the topics that our community has passion for and fear about ... and use art and ...Read More
Experimenting with Burning Man Literary Culture — Is This What Success Looks Like?
Munney and I were walking around the Totem of Confession, marveling at the intricacy and imaginative power of the surreal ...Read More
How I Fell Out of Love With the Latitude Society — and What Burning Man Can Learn from It
I’ve wanted to write about a piece examining Burning Man through the lens of The Latitude Society (or vice-versa) for ...Read More
Forget the Legal Questions About Sandwiches — Are Burners “Consumers?” Or Are We Something Else?
After every Burn, there is a storm. A media storm. After 2013’s Burning Man, the big media storm was about ...Read More
Seen Today
Last night I watched the Mazu Temple burn, a glorious shower of fireworks followed by a beautiful flower of fire ...Read More
Barking up a (Dust) Storm
"Ladies and gentlemen, put down your glow sticks and prepare to be dazzled by the light of adventure and discovery!" ...Read More