Herb and Dorothy

(USA, 2008, 91 mins)

Digital BetaCam

New York Premiere

Executive Producers: Karl Katz, Catherine Price
Editor: Bernadine Colish, Joe Ruscitto
Associate Editor: Joe Ruscitto
Music Composer: David Mazjlin

This documentary by filmmaker Megumi Sasaki limns a fascinating and sensitive portrait of two of the best-known and certainly most unusual collectors on the contemporary art scene. Dorothy and Herb Vogel have put together possibly the largest and most important private collection of minimalist and conceptual art—tough art in Herb's phrase—and all without the resources of a Saatchi, Getty, Rockefeller or de Menil. Not even close. Limited to their modest salaries as a librarian and postal worker, they followed their three cardinal rules of art acquisition: (1) what they liked, (2) what they could afford, and (3) what could fit into their low-ceilinged, one-bedroom, rent-controlled Manhattan apartment. In this age of commodification, Herb & Dorothy is a rare and uplifting true story about people who commit themselves heart and wallet for love, not profit. Over the decades the diminutive elderly couple have developed close friendships with and phenomenal portfolios by dozens of artists, most famously Sol LeWitt, Robert and Sylvia Mangold, Richard Tuttle, Chuck Close, Pat Steir, Lucio Pozzi and Christo and Jeanne-Claude, all of whom speak thoughtfully and fondly of the art world phenomenon that is Herb & Dorothy.

-- G.E. Suh

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