Chie and I went with Non-san and Ryo-san to a small movie theatre to watch an independent movie, Herb & Dorothy. The movie was about Herb & Dorothy Vogel, an ordinary couple in New York was it not for their passion to collect art. Since they met in 1960 they have on their small salaries collected more than 4000 art objects, and now given it away to the National Gallery of Art.
The movie was a documentary and so so. But it was interesting to see how passionate they were about art. Basically they had given up on anything else in life than art. Once they gave the whole collection away to National Gallery of Art they had to use 5 long trucks to get all the art out of their small apartment. No one of the people involved in moving the art out could believe how all that art fit into the apartment.
Afterwards we went to a Korean restaurant in Shibuya for dinner. And then to Fujiya, a 100 year old restaurant chain, for ice cream.
How strange to collect all that art and then give it away. Nice gesture though.
They got a deal to be able to visit the museum to watch their stuff. I guess it was too much of a national treasure to be in an apartment just waiting to be flooded or burned down or robbed.