Art Friends Night Out at The Penn Theatre
The PCAC has partnered with Friends of The PENN to bring an exciting Art Documentary film series to our community!
Tickets are $5 cash, and available 30 minutes before each show at The PENN box office

Mark your calendar for these 2026 dates and check back soon for feature film titles and Kresge Detroit Artist shorts.

Art Friends Night Out @ The Penn Theatre
Thursday, February 19, 2026   7:00pm   Tickets $5 at the Penn Box Office
​Feature Film: Van Gogh - Poets & Lovers

​And save the date for the next one....Thursday, March 12, 2026

About the film.....
HERB & DOROTHYwww.tributemovies.com

Herb & Dorothy tells the extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, a postal clerk, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means.
In the early 1960s, when very little attention was paid to Minimalist and Conceptual Art, Herb and Dorothy Vogel quietly began purchasing the works of unknown artists. Devoting all of Herb's salary to purchase art they liked, and living on Dorothy's paycheck alone, they continued collecting artworks guided by two rules: the piece had to be affordable, and it had to be small enough to fit in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment.
Within these limitations, they proved themselves curatorial visionaries; most of those they supported and befriended went on to become world-renowned artists including Sol LeWitt, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Richard Tuttle, Chuck Close, Robert Mangold, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Lynda Benglis, Pat Steir, Robert Barry, Lucio Pozzi, and Lawrence Weiner.
After 30 years of meticulous collecting and buying, the Vogels managed to accumulate over 2,000 pieces, filling every corner of their tiny one bedroom apartment. In 1992, the Vogels decided to move their entire collection to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The vast majority of their collection was given as a gift to the institution. ..............

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