Installation shots of David Best's Temple in the Renwick Gallery's Grand Salon, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2018, courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, photos by Libby Weiler
No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man, opens on Friday, March 30, and features large-scale installations--the artistic hallmark of Burning Man--at the core of the exhibition. These include a temple designed for the Renwick's Grand Salon by David Best, well known for his large-scale temples at Burning Man's annual gathering in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. In a recent interview with the museum, he told us that there aren't many places for people to reflect on loss. In the artist's words, the Temple is, "a non-demoninational place where someone can go to be forgiven or to seek forgiveness or to seek solitude from grief."
David Best (in golden hard-hat) and crew member designing intricate elements of the Temple.
A detail of one of the Temple's multiple altars.
Learn more about the artists and artworks featured in the exhibition: No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man.
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