The Man at 40
Forty years ago on the solstice, the first Burning Man event took place in San Francisco. Only a handful of people alive today remember that evening on Baker Beach, and ...Read More
You’re Doing It Wrong! Stop Burning Your Art and Start Burning Your Art!
By Savonarola
Burning Man is grateful that legendary 15th-century Florentine Friar Savonarola has agreed to write an occasional feature for our Renaissance ...Read More
Report from the European Leadership Summit: How Well Does Fuckery Translate Across Languages?
There was no scheduled session on mischief and fuckery at Burning Man’s 2016 European Leadership Summit, but one happened anyway. ...Read More
Report from the European Leadership Summit: Who’s Leading, Who’s Following?
I was privileged to get to attend Burning Man's European Leadership Summit. This is the first in a short series ...Read More
Burning Book Club: da Vinci Uncoded
Part of the Art, Money, and the Renaissance blog series Since the theme for Burning Man 2016 is da ...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
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
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
Another Successful Sharp Jump!
People say, “jump the shark” like it is a bad thing. Sure, it signified a time in the story arch ...Read More