Slog - Comments on Incoming! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/incoming This is some great news. New Yorkers Dorothy and Herbert Vogel are giving away their art collection not all at once, in a great big pile, to an already overstuffed New York institution, but to museums all over the country—including Seattle Art Museum. Fifty works—mostly minimalist and conceptual works, where SAM could use a boost—are going to a selected institution in each of 50 states. (This is all possible with the help of the National Gallery of Art, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.) Here's what's coming to SAM (the museum only... Copyright 2008 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:35:56 -0800 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:03:09 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Peter F The Vogels are so awesome.

]]> Peter F http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/incoming#c996258 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/incoming#c996258 Visual Art Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:42:31 -0800 Comment by Eric F Ditto. I wish the 60 Minutes feature on them, made after they promised most of their collection to the National Gallery, was online.

Congrats to SAM, this stuff will really complement their Anne Gerber collection holdings.

]]> Eric F http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/incoming#c996331 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/incoming#c996331 Visual Art Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:22:57 -0800 Comment by max solomon Sol LeWitt does zip for me.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/incoming#c996431 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/incoming#c996431 Visual Art Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:25:09 -0800 Comment by Ries Niemi You need to ask him more nicely.

The Vogels are indeed great. Cute, too. And they made their money the old fashioned way- by working, not inheriting it, or even making a product I can curse at when I use my computer.

Although they did tend to bargain hard, they actually bought work from artists, in artists studios, almost every time. No art consultant visiting Mary Boone for them.
They bought cheap, trusted their own taste, and bought against the prevailing conventional wisdom, while working as a mailman and a teacher.

How far can you get from the Art Basel, Eurotrash, Jetset Mindset?

]]> Ries Niemi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/incoming#c996505 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/incoming#c996505 Visual Art Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:02:44 -0800 Comment by timothy wind In response to Max Solomon:
Please let their be a wall drawing in SAM's future.

]]> timothy wind http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/incoming#c996507 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/incoming#c996507 Visual Art Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:03:09 -0800