CONTEMPORARY FORUM LECTURE AND FILM SERIES
SPONSORED BY BENTLEY GALLERY/BENTLEY PROJECTS

Herb & Dorothy : "Curatorial Visionaries"

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Two Showings: 4pm and 7pm

Phoenix Art Museum – Whiteman Hall
Central at McDowell

Everyone is invited and admission is free.

This wonderful film recounts how after 30 years of meticulous collecting and buying, the Vogels managed to accumulate over 2000 pieces of art filling every corner of their tiny one-bedroom Manhattan apartment. In 1992, the Vogels decided to move their entire collection to the National Gallery of Art (in 5 moving trucks), and the vast majority of their collection was given as a gift to that institution. Many of the works they acquired appreciated so significantly over the years that their collection today is worth millions of dollars. Still, the Vogels never sold a single piece. Today, Herb and Dorothy live in the same apartment in New York with 19 turtles, lots of fish and one cat. They collected artwork guided by two rules: the work had to be affordable and it had to fit into their living space. Within these limitations, they proved themselves to be "curatorial visionaries."