The audience is invited to a reception at the Museum of Art immediately after the screening to meet and speak with Vogel and Sasaki and to view the exhibition of a selection of works given to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art by the Vogels. The film and reception are open to the public.

Developed as the follow-up film to Megumi Sasaki’s award-winning documentary “Herb & Dorothy” (2008) that moved millions of art lovers worldwide, “Herb & Dorothy 50X50” captures the last chapter of the Vogels’ extraordinary life and their gift to the nation, raising various questions on art, and what it takes to support art in today’s society.

A “road movie” through the art world, the film takes the audience on a journey across the U.S. to 11 recipient museums, from Honolulu to Fargo, meeting curators and visitors, and introduces famous (often controversial) artists, as well as unknown favorites of Herb and Dorothy.

The free screening is presented in conjunction with the exhibition “It’s What You Do With What You View”. The installation celebrates the generous donation of well over 300 works from the celebrated collection of the Vogels to the Museum in December 2013. The show reflects the evolving history of minimal, post-minimal, and conceptual art practice, and features the work of numerous iconic artists including Robert Barry, Dan Graham, Edda Renouf, Julian Schnabel, Pat Steir, Richard Tuttle, and Dorothy and Herbert Vogel themselves.

For more information, phone 207-735-3275 or email [email protected].