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HERB & DOROTHY

USA | 2008
87 minutes
Director/Producer: Megumi Sasaki
Photography: Axel Baumann, Rafael De La Uz
Editor: Bernadine Colish
Music: David Majzlin
With: Herbert Vogel, Dorothy Vogel, Lucio Pozzi, John Paoletti, Jack Cowart, Pat Steir, Richard Tuttle, Will Barnet, Chuck Close, James Siena, Christo and Jean-Claude

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Meet Herb and Dorothy Vogel, a singularly unpretentious New York couple who, with the salaries of a postal clerk and a librarian, have built one of the world’s most significant and valuable collections of minimalist and conceptual art. Knowing exactly what they like, and buying only what can be carried home by subway or taxi and can fit into the one-bedroom apartment they share with numerous pets, they’ve been patrons since the early 60s to, amongst others, Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, Robert Mangold, Christo and Chuck Close. They have works by Schnabel, Picasso, Pollack and they’re not interested in selling any of it. “As much as it is a tribute to the Vogels’ devotion to the arts, Herb and Dorothy also fascinates in how it explores the art of seeing... how we see beauty is as mysterious and mystifying a phenomenon as how we create it.” — Jay Antani, Slant

Delightful portrait of an eccentric NY couple who bought the art they loved and amassed a collection worth millions. 

 

 

“It’s a current and universal parable on the very dark

 

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