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Everyone’s an Artist; Artists Need to Make a Living Like Everyone

November 30, 2022 By Caveat Magister

This is part III in Caveat's series about "decommodifying permission" and figuring out how to square the needs of a decommodified art culture with the difficulty making a living as ...Read More

Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles

Burning Man, High Fashion, and Commodification

March 14, 2019 By Megan Miller

Earlier this week, I was made aware of a “hip new clothing line” that debuted at this year’s Paris Fashion ...Read More

Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles

Strike a Pose

March 14, 2019 By John "Halcyon" Styn

Manish Arora, six-time Burner, held a runway fashion show influenced by Burning Man during Paris Fashion Week. A good portion of ...Read More

Serious Stuff

You’ve Failed, Now Do What Feels Like Burning Man – “Too Offensive For Burning Man?” part 4

March 8, 2019 By Caveat Magister

In prior posts we’ve looked at the danger of trying to make generally applicable, abstract, rules for dealing with acidic ...Read More

Serious Stuff

It’s Not About Rules, It’s About People – “Too Offensive for Burning Man?” part 3

March 6, 2019 By Caveat Magister

So okay, quick recap: In part one we examined the question of whether there even is a kind of “offensive” ...Read More

Serious Stuff

Those Who Would Sacrifice Inclusion for Expression, Or Expression for Inclusion, Get Neither – “Too Offensive For Burning Man?” part 2

March 5, 2019 By Caveat Magister

The second most common, and least helpful, way of looking at the question of "what to do about offensive art" ...Read More

Serious Stuff

Too “Offensive” for Burning Man? (Part 1)

March 4, 2019 By Caveat Magister

By the last months of 2018, a few incidents caused organizers around the Global Network to have a series of ...Read More

Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles

I Am Not a Brand, Am I?

February 6, 2019 By Caveat Magister

So, after my post about the Fyre Festival, my friend Robin Lehto — who is very active in San Francisco's underground ...Read More

Serious Stuff

What Burning Man Can Learn from the Fyre Festival

January 22, 2019 By Caveat Magister

Two documentaries about the made-for-internet disaster of the “Fyre Festival” have caused psychological tremors along Burning Man’s emotional fault lines. ...Read More

BRC Art, Serious Stuff

“Is the 747 Art?” Is a Great Question, but It Might Not Be the Right One

September 25, 2018 By Caveat Magister

The best thing about the 747, in my opinion, is the way it has caused large groups of people to ...Read More