Film screening: 'Herb & Dorothy' (2008) + Q&A with Dr Marie Tavinor
Why collect?
Friday 5 June 2020 6.30 - 8.30pm
The Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts
£15, £9
Gauguin and the Impressionists
Join us as we host a screening of 'Herb & Dorothy', a documentary following two unlikely collectors who over the course of 45 years amassed a major collection of art.
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Fuelled by passion and dedication, Herb and Dorothy Vogel used their modest civil service incomes to acquire over 4,000 works of art which filled their one-bedroom New York apartment.
Their collection included minimalist and conceptual art by Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Lynda Benglis and many other artists who are featured in the film. Artist Chuck Close affectionately refers to the couple as the “mascots of the art world” and collaborators Christo and Jeanne-Claude recall how Herb and Dorothy acquired a work of theirs in exchange for cat-sitting.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Dr Marie Tavinor.
Director: Megumi Sasaki
Running time: 1h 27 min
Language: English
Release: 2008
Dr Marie Tavinor is the Course Lead in the Executive Master in Cultural Leadership at the Royal Academy of Arts. She specialises in the history of collecting and the history of the art market; she is also a founding member of the international Society for the History of Collecting, of which she currently is the Secretary.
Official trailer for 'Herb & Dorothy'
Why collect? programme
Join us to hear current art collectors offer a rare insight into their collections and to learn what motivates individuals to collect art today. In this series of events including in conversations, talks and a film screening, we ask: Why collect?