Herb and Dorothy (2008)

Original title

Herb & Dorothy

Directed by

Megumi Sasaki

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The documentary follows a retired postal worker and a librarian in New York City who built a major art collection on ordinary salaries. It shows how their passion, patience, and personal connections with artists led them to acquire hundreds of important minimalist and conceptual works.

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What happens

Herb and Dorothy is a 2008 documentary film by Megumi Sasaki. The film tells the story of two middle-class collectors of contemporary art, Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, and the enormous and valuable collection of conceptual art and minimalist art they amassed in spite of their relatively meager salaries as New York City civil servants. Many artists are interviewed in the film, including Christo, Chuck Close, Robert Mangold, and Pat Steir. As of September 2009, the film had made $194,721 at the box office. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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