Burning Man 2025 took place from August 24 to September 1; the year’s theme was “Tomorrow Today.” Photo: Elisa Carollo for Observer If you think Burning Man is just a crowd in the desert dancing, ...

"From vast mechanical creatures to mind-blowing pyrotechnics, the Burning Man Festival is the incubator of some of the most remarkable site-specific outdoor art ever made."-- Back cover One hundred ...

The Man was burning, and I felt nothing. Around me 70,000 people danced, shouted and wept beneath the black Nevada sky. Flames roared over the wooden effigy that gives the nine-day festival its name, ...

Have you ever wanted to burn a man? In June 1986, the founders of the Burning Man project and nonprofit, Larry Harvey and Jerry James, built a wooden human effigy and set it on fire on San Francisco’s ...

Black Burner Project group photo (2022) (photo by Erin Douglas, all courtesy Erin Douglas unless otherwise noted) You never know what a simple “yes” can transform into. As the dust clouded around the ...

This week, hundreds of artists from all over the world will begin assembling one of the largest and most dazzling group art shows in the United States, or anywhere. Approximately 50,000 people will ...

Maureen Maples, 49, has been a regular at the annual Burning Man event in the Nevada desert for the past 20 years. Attending Burning Man has impacted her life in many positive ways, she shared with ...

A woman who was left nearly paralyzed when she plunged from a climbable Burning Man art installation last year is gearing up for her ninth trip to the desert event — saying its dangers make it ...

Burning man FILE PHOTO: Maxar satellite imagery of the 2023 Burning Man Festival held in the Black Rock Desert about 100 miles north of Reno, NV. A massive windstorm whipped up sand and destroyed ...

Burning Man is a counterculture community event held the last week of August each year in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada that draws upwards of 70,000 people. Photo credit: MIKE NELSON/AFP Last week ...