“To the Berkeleyans who have stood by me in this dark and difficult time in my life…” Photo: Richard Nagler “To the Berkeleyans who have stood by me in this dark and difficult time in my life…” Photo: Richard Nagler In the past few weeks, many Berkeleyside readers have enjoyed a front-row seat as one […]
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Wall Street Journal joins the fun after a thoughtful note to a Berkeley thief goes viral
A surveillance camera outside Berkeley business Skylight & Sun caught two people, working on behalf of the Wall Street Journal, posting two notes on a gate on Blake Street. Image: courtesy Richard Nagler The Wall Street Journal couldn’t resist joining in the fun after it read about a note written by local businessman and photographer […]
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A Berkeley note to Wall Street Journal thief gets results
The note posted by Richard Nagler addressed to the person who had been stealing his copy of the Wall Street Journal on and off for ten years. Photo: Marty Schiffenbauer. Click to enlarge After we published the story of a novel note to a newspaper thief earlier today, things began to fall into place. We now know that the […]
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‘To the man who has been taking my Wall Street Journal’
Photo: Marty Schiffenbauer Late last year Berkeleyside published a story on “Berkeley signs” — the notes, sometimes handwritten, which Berkeley residents are apt to post asking fellow residents, often most politely, to do something — or, more likely, to stop doing something. As the writer of the story pointed out, here in Berkeley, when we scold […]
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Richard Nagler: Here’s looking at you, looking at art
Titian, Danaë (c. 1555), Art Institute of Chicago. Photo: Richard Nagler For his new collection of images, Berkeley photographer Richard Nagler spent a lot of time in museums. He also spent a lot of time waiting. Stationed in front of a work of art, he would wait for someone to come along and complete it. The […]
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Book explores impact of Berkeley Art Museum’s Peter Selz
When Peter Selz arrived in Berkeley in 1965, the university only had a small art gallery to display its modest collection of art. Selz had been recruited from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City to oversee the construction of a new, contemporary museum, the Berkeley Art Museum on Bancroft Way. He did […]
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Richard Nagler: Waiting for the decisive moment
“Special”, Oakland, November 1980. “Special”, Oakland, November 1980. Richard Nagler was a painter until he decided to be a photographer. “Paintings are about the painter,” he told a rapt audience at UC Berkeley’s Center for Photography at the Graduate School of Journalism on the evening of November 30th. “Photography is about ‘the other’, about what […]
