Two rare diamonds: 'Herb and Dorothy' -inspiring Arthouse Film by Megumi Sasaki on a dynamic, inspiring tale of a couple who as Sasaki says proves, ' You don't have to be a Rockefeller to collect art'. Where passionate 'greed' defies material greed'

Just watched the ArtHouse Film, ' Herb & Dorothy' about a couple who since the early 1960s began an obsession with the collecting of mainly conceptual and minimalist art when it was little known. Herb combined his night job as a postal clerk with intimate daytime study of art history at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University . Here grew a vocational passion in which he and Dorothy (now still collecting in their elder years), a librarian with Masters Degree went on to spent every living minute at gallery openings, socialising with artists, getting to know them and purchasing what they could afford on their salaries and mainly what could fit within their one-bedroom apartment. It's an amazing tale of upto 5000 acquired artworks of which half would go on to fill 4-5 40ft enormous removal vans when moved but until then managed to be crammed in their apartment over the years. What you'll get from this couple is an admiration for study and knowledge of art and the key to 'listening' to the aims/desires of artists when valuing their place in history when collecting. There could of been plenty of opportunities in the present day for the couple to sell the works for profit but as you'll see in the end when the apartment is barely breathing with space they don't sell out to material greed. True inspirations and angels of the artworld.