Herb & Dorothy Vogel

…is such a great story – just watched it last night – about the librarian and postal worker who gradually and obsessively amassed one of the great collections of late 20th Century New York art, completely filling their Manhattan rent controlled one bedroom apartment, only to donate it to the museum they visited on their honeymoon in 1962, the National Gallery (because, Dorothy explains, it would never be de-accessioned, the museum is free to the public, and having spent their lives working in civic and federal jobs, they liked the idea of giving it back to the USA) in exchange for a modest monthly stipend to cover their living expenses, which they have gone on to spend on yet more art to donate to the museum. (film by Megumi Sasaki – check out the website )