Herb & Dorothy
(Directed by Megumi Sasaki/USA/2009)
October 9-11, 2009, 7pm
An MBC Premiere DIGITAL Presentation! In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
You don’t have to be a Rockefeller to collect art.
Herb & Dorothy tells the extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, a postal clerk, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means. In the early 1960s, when very little attention was paid to Minimalist and Conceptual Art, Herb and Dorothy Vogel quietly began purchasing the works of unknown artists. Devoting all of Herb’s salary to purchase art they liked, and living on Dorothy’s paycheck alone, they proved themselves curatorial visionaries; most of those they supported and befriended went on to become world-renowned artists.
WINNER: Audience Award Hamptons & Philadelphia Film Festiavals, SilverDocs
“The backstory to the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States gift is, well, sui generis to say the least.”-The Wall Street Journal
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