This weekend is your last chance to see Theatre First’s production of Glenngary Glen Ross at Live Oak Theatre. Photo: Theatre First GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS This weekend is your last chance to see Theatre First’s production of Glengarry Glen Ross at Live Oak Theatre, as its run has its final day on Sunday. David Mamet’s Pulitzer […]
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A journalist discovered, undercovered: Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier in a self-portrait. Photo courtesy of the Jeffrey Goldstein collection. The most mind-blowing fact about Vivian Maier isn’t that she managed to shoot more than 120,000 photos while supporting herself a nanny. Or that the families for which she worked had little clue about her double life. Or even that she often took […]
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Richard Misrach: Photographing beauty can be tricky
Photographer Richard Misrach talking at Berkeley’s David Brower Center which is showing an exhibition of his work. Photo: Tommy Lau Photographer Richard Misrach talking at Berkeley’s David Brower Center which is showing an exhibition of his work. Photo: Tommy Lau “It’s impossible to photograph clouds for their beauty anymore. We know too much about what […]
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Berkeley’s Kala Art Institute auction supports local artists
Squeak Carnwath: No Side 2, 3/10, UV cured acrylic ink over calcium carbonate over panel, 12″ x 12″, 2012. Squeak Carnwath: No Side 2, 3/10, UV cured acrylic ink over calcium carbonate over panel, 12″ x 12″, 2012. By Marcia Tanner Art lovers looking to do well by doing good, while having fun and maybe […]
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Reminder: Share your Firestorm memories at BAM
Oakland Fire #104-91, 1991, one of the images by Richard Misrach on show at BAM/PFA © Richard Misrach 1991 As part of a series of public events supporting its current exhibition by Berkeley photographer Richard Misrach, the Berkeley Art Museum is inviting the local community to gather at the museum this Sunday afternoon to share […]
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With elegy book, community becomes part of exhibition
A guest leafs through the Firestorm elegy book at the Berkeley Art Museum on Tuesday, Oct. 11. Photo: Brian Scott Speaking about his new exhibition of photographs which opened simultaneously at the Berkeley Art Museum and the Oakland Museum of California this week, Richard Misrach says it is as much a community event as an […]
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Looking for familiar landmarks, seeing what little was left
Aftermath of the Oakland-Berkeley Firestorm by Richard Misrach, part of an exhibition opening tonight at the Berkeley Art Museum October 23, 1991: At the foot of Broadway Terrace, I squeezed into a police car with another couple. We rode in silence, afraid and anxious to get close enough to see what remained of our homes and […]
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On 20th anniversary, community remembers Firestorm
The city, as well as Berkeley’s art museum and Berkeleyside, are commemorating the Oakland-Berkeley Firestorm.
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20 years on, share your memories of a disaster
The Oakland-Berkeley hills in the aftermath of the 1991 Firestorm. Photo: Richard Misrach Twenty years ago next month, on a sunny Sunday in October, a raging fire took hold and — driven by hot, dry northeasterly winds — swept through the Oakland-Berkeley hills causing massive destruction and loss. The flames jumped two freeways, eventually spreading across […]
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Richard Misrach: A focus on the after-story
Richard Misrach in his Emeryville studio where he has worked since 1976. Photo: Tracey Taylor Richard Misrach is nothing if not patient. When, in 1997, the renowned photographer moved into a home in the Berkeley hills and decided to capture his new view of the Golden Gate Bridge, he didn’t just take a few dozen […]