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Larry Harvey



Larry Harvey (1948–2018) was an American activist, artist, and philanthropist who founded the Burning Man festival in 1986. Burning Man is a globally celebrated and massive annual weeklong festival held in the Black Rock desert, a free-flowing, artistic, pro-community celebration of anti-business-as-usual.

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Radical Ritual: How Burning Man Changed the World

Written from Neil Shister’s perspective as a journalist, student of American culture, and six-time participant in Burning Man, Radical Ritual presents the event as vitally, historically important.

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Neil Shister
2019
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Burning Man’s Founder Looks Ahead

In the 20 years since he first burned an effigy on a San Francisco beach, Larry Harvey has seen Burning Man grow into an international phenomenon. In an exclusive interview, he discusses the event’s history and what its future holds.

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Daniel Terdiman
2005
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Larry Harvey and Paul Miller: Social Movements in 2013

What are the social and economic movements that will radically change societies in the coming year?

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Larry Harvey
2012
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Stewart Harvey and Bryan Harvey: The Man with the Hat

The Man with the Hat: A Celebration of Larry Harvey’s Life and Legacy (1948–2018), at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre on Saturday, July 14, 2018.

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Larry Harvey
2018
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Larry Harvey on Kids as Burners :: Profiles in Dust, 2014

Larry speaks with Profiles in Dust about the history of kids' involvement with Burning Man from the very beginning, and the education conferred by making (and burning) things by hand.

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Larry Harvey
2018
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The Tribes of Burning Man: How an Experimental City in the Desert Is Shaping the New American Counterculture

Burning Man is the premier countercultural event of modern times, growing over 25 years from a strange San Francisco beach party into an experimental city of 50,000 colorful souls in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, which burns brightly for a week before dissolving into dusty memories and changed lives.

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Steven T. Jones
2011
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The Man Behind Burning Man

He is sitting alone on a couch in the middle of the desert, face hidden under a cowboy hat and aviator sunglasses, teeth like a colonial graveyard, chain-smoking unfiltered Camel 100s in the 98 degree heat and talking about the ancient Greeks' concept of public space. - Joel Stein

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Joel Stein
2000
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Larry Harvey: Artists Deserve to Make Money

The founder of Burning Man talks about how the annual arts festival has become an alternative market for art. Harvey says he founded the globally renowned arts festival on an impulse in 1986.

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Larry Harvey
2015
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The Scene That Became Cities: What Burning Man Philosophy Can Teach Us About Building Better Communities

Over 30 years Burning Man has gone from two families on a San Francisco beach to a global movement in which hundreds of thousands of people around the world create events on every continent.

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Caveat Magister (Benjamin Wachs)
2019
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Larry Harvey, the Man Behind Burning Man, Is Dead at 70

He (Harvey) also saw a “deep parallel between desert and cyberspace.” - Anita Gates

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Anita Gates
2018
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