Join us for this discussion about collecting affordable works or art, with panelists Burt Aaron, collector and trustee, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; Marc Glimcher, president, PaceWildenstein Gallery; and Brady Roberts, chief curator, Milwaukee Art Museum. This discussion is being offered in conjunction with the exhibition Fifty Works for Fifty States, which features the recent gifts to the Museum from Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, who have made art collecting a lifelong journey, amassing a world-class collection of over 4,000 works on a shoestring budget.

The story of the Vogels' collection has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Modern Painters, among other publications, and is the subject of the award-winning documentary, Herb & Dorothy, which has the slogan "You don't have to be a Rockefeller to collect art." The couple devoted Herbert's modest salary to the purchase of artworks and befriended many of the artists that would come to lead the minimal, conceptual, and post-minimal art movements.

The book The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States and award-winning DVD Herb & Dorothy are available in the Museum Store and online.  

Lubar Auditorium

Free with Museum admission