Press Archive

1997

Digerati Are Unlikely Celebrants of a Primitivist Conflagration
July 21, 1997
New York Times

1998

Labor Day, Burning Man & St. Diana, Princess of Wales
September 6, 1998
Barb Wire blog

1999

Burning passion
October 18, 1999
Forbes Magazine

2000

Neon Surrealism Required; Clothing Optional
September 5, 2000
New York Times

2002

Not Fully Contained: The return of the Burning Man Film Festival can ease the post-playa blues
September 25, 2002
Metro Active

Burning Questions – Strip down, dress up or just shave it all off. You can do it all at Burning Man, and here’s how
on August 14, 2002
in Metro Active

2003

Naked is OK in the newsroom – British journalist Gaby Pomeroy spent a week on a paper at the radical Burning Man festival in Nevada
September 8, 2003
The Guardian

Playing by the Rules at the Burning Man Festival
September 6, 2003
NPR

Colorado woman dies in I-80 crash (Subscription required)
September 4, 2003
Elko Daily News 

Trouble in Counterculture Utopia (Subscription required)
August 31, 2003
New York Times

2004

‘This is Burning Man’: The Rite of Summer(Requires subscription)
September 19, 2004
The New York Times

Michelle Hlubinka, Robert Cook (Requires subscription)
August 29, 2004
The New York Times

2005

Burning Man, meet Drowning Man
September 7, 2005
by Andrew Orlowski
in The Register

2006

Burning Man Spreads Its Flame
on November 12, 2006
by Julia Chaplin
in New York Times

Cube, Sweet Cube
on September 27, 2006
by Lauren Gard and Robert Gammon and Jonathan Kaminsky
in East Bay Express

2007

Burning Festival, when Wall Street meets the freak
on August 29, 2007
by (automated English translation)
Il Sole 24 Ore by Serena Danna

Burning Man: Fact & Fiction
on June 25, 2007
by Scott G (the G-Man)
in eNewsChannel.com

Shipyard, City Struggle to Reach Compromise
on June 1, 2007
by Richard Brenneman
in Berkeleydailyplanet.com

Dry-Ice Martini and Electric Cake
on October 29, 2008
by Julia Moskin
in New York Times

2008

How I Got Here: At The Helm of Burning Man
on September 17, 2008
by Dennis Nishi
in The Wall Street Journal

Priming for Burning Man, Flames in Hand
on August 14, 2008
by New York Times
in Apr Dembosky

ZeroOne Preview
on May 14, 2008
by Silicon Valley Metro/MetroActive.com
in Gary Singh

2009

Sharing love with strangers in the desert night
on April 28, 2009
by Las Vegas Weekly Blogs
in Jennifer Grafiada

2010

Pisco Sin Fronteras
on October 23, 2010
in Travellerspoint

2011

Beyond Domes: 36 Photos of Burning Man Building Types
on December 11, 2012
in Web Urbanist

2012

Lesson From Burning Man: The Social Network Is All Around You
on September 10, 2012
by Jon Mitchell
in readwriteweb

Burning Man: More Relevant Than Ever
on August 27, 2012
in Good Is

The Main Street Republican values of … Burning Man?
on May 3, 2012
in Ezra Klein – Washington Post Blog

2015

Burning Man’s Fashion Is Wild, but There Are Rules
By Sarah Maslin Nir, August 31, 2015
in the New York Times

Is Burning Man on the Cusp of Becoming a Permanent Utopian Community?
Nellie Bowles, August 30, 2015
in NYMag Intelligencer

Photos From Burning Man 2015
By Ann Taylor, September 7, 2015
in The Atlantic

Desert Music: Burning Man Confronts The Rising Beat
By Andy Gensler, September 2, 2015
on NPR

Why these parents bring their kids to the raging party that is Burning Man
By Greg Ferenstein, July 31, 2015
in The Washington Post

Burning Man “needed urban design because it’s a city” says founder Larry Harvey
By Marcus Fairs, August 25, 2015
in Dezeen

2016

Welcome to Black Rock City: What Burning Man’s temporary town teaches us about sustainable communities.
By Thomas Sullivan, April 2016
in American Planning Association

Burning Man chief: ‘it helps people connect more authentically’
By Matthew Caines, April 22, 2016
in The Guardian

Burning Man buys 3,800-acre ranch – is it about to build a year-round festival?
By Nellie Bowles, June 10, 2016
in The Guardian

Burning Man turns 30: The untold lives of Nevada’s Burner royalty
By Jenny Kane, August 11, 2016
in the Reno Gazette Journal

Grover Norquist, conservative anti-tax crusader, goes to Burning Man — again
By Katie Herzog, August 26, 2016
in Grist

Photos From Burning Man 2016
By Alan Taylor, September 1, 2016
in The Atlantic

Dust to dust: mourning the dead at Burning Man
By Steven W Thrasher, September 5, 2016
in The Guardian

Is Burning Man becoming less overwhelmingly white?
By Steven W Thrasher, September 13, 2016
in The Guardian

Why I Consider Burning Man the Greatest Cultural Movement of Our Time
By Daniel Pinchbeck, October 11, 2016
in Artsy 

2017

Burning Man with kids: Dusty Playground
By Amy Graff, July 31, 2017
in SFGate

A Look at Burning Man’s Most Spectacular Moments
By Alyssa Giacobbe, August 24, 2017
in Architectural Digest

What the Controlled Chaos of Burning Man Reveals About Cities
By Aarian Marshall, August 27, 2017
in Wired

The Endless Rules of Burning Man
By Christine Grillo, August 30, 2017
in Bloomberg City Lab

All the Nudes That’s Fit to Print: Burning Man Has a Newspaper War
By Jack Nicas, September 7, 2017
in The Wall Street Journal

2018

Galactic inspiration: The architect behind 2018 Burning Man’s twisting temple
By Nell Lewis, January 30, 2018
on CNN

Will the Spirit of Burning Man Art Survive in Museums?
By Brian Schaefer, March 23, 2018
in the New York Times

Larry Harvey, the Man Behind Burning Man, Is Dead at 70
By Anita Gates, April 28, 2018
in the New York Times

How Larry Harvey, the Founder of Burning Man, Taught America to Experiment
By Emily Witt, May 6, 2018
in The New Yorker

The Rise of Burning Man
By Lauren Tierney and Shelly Tan, August 23, 2018
in The Washington Post

Silicon Valley tech culture has roots in Burning Man, Stanford scholar says
By Melissa De Witte, August 29, 2018
in Stanford News

How Burning Man Has Evolved Over Three Decades
By Laura M. Holson, August 30, 2018
in the New York Times

Burning Man’s Mathematical Underbelly
By Seth Stannard Cottrell, September 14, 2018
Scientific American 

2019

Burning Man finally fights Instagram culture and bans high-end camp
By Ashley Boucher, February 14, 2019
in The Guardian

8 Ways to Make Your City More Like Burning Man
By Caroline Crurnoyer, July 29, 2019
in Governing

How to Go to Burning Man Without Going to Burning Man
By Caroline Webb, September 2, 2019
in Behavioral Scientist

A Nobel-Winning Economist Goes to Burning Man
By Emily Badger, September 5, 2019
in the New York Times

When Reporting an Economics Article at Burning Man, Be Prepared for Things to Get Weird
By Emily Badger, September 7, 2019
in the New York Times

The history of Burning Man
By Neil Shister, October 20, 2019
in The Washington Post

Missed Burning Man? Burning Man, or at Least Its Art, Is Coming to You
By Finn-Olaf Jones, November 8, 2019
in the New York Times 

2020

Burning Man Falls Victim to Pandemic
By Aimee Ortiz, April 11, 2020
in the New York Times

What Burning Man can teach us about community and art during coronavirus
By Gregory Thomas, July 24, 2020
in the San Francisco Chronicle

Digitizing Burning Man
By Lucas Matney, August 12, 2020
in TechCrunch

Is Virtual Burning Man the Internet’s Ultimate Test?
By Neil Shister, September 3, 2020
in the New York Times

2021

Check out these ten wild proposals for a permanent Burning Man in the Nevada desertBy Audrey Wachs, March 8, 2021
in The Architect’s Newspaper

No Burning Man festival again this year because of the pandemic, organizers say.
By Dan Levin, April 27, 2021
in the New York Times

Rogue Burning Man 2021: Should you go? Probably not.
By Chris Taylor, August 25, 2021
in Mashable

How Could Burning Man Get Weirder? When It’s in Your Living Room.
By Jim Carlton, August 30, 2021
in The Wall Street Journal

The Secret Sci-Fi Origins of Burning Man
By Jason Kehe, September 28, 2021
in Wired