Burning Man is built on the principle of “ Radical Self-expression .” But when that expression takes physical form, how far does the law allow it to go? Burning Man is a “community and global cultural movement”  that gathers in Black Rock City, Nevada, every year. The week-long event sees nearly 70,000 participants , and is widely known for its eclectic assortment of large-scale art installations, the largest of which is “The Man” that is burned at the festival’s conclusion. Participants are...

Graffiti is a Crime (2013), a spray paint stencil by Banksy in New York. Just last year, the iconic street artist Banksy earned approximately $10.57 million dollars  from his art. In the same year, Los Angeles received over three hundred thousand  requests to remove Graffiti citywide, and San Francisco spent more than $20 million  on Graffiti clean up. Graffiti exists in a striking legal double bind: governments criminalize it as vandalism , yet the same legal system protects it under...