Sunday, April 19, 12pm
Curatorial Tour of Robert Rauschenberg's New York: Pictures from the Real World at the Museum of the City of New York
Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10029

Join Sean Corcoran, Senior Curator, Prints and Photographs, for a tour of Robert Rauschenberg’s New York: Pictures from the Real World. In celebration of the centennial of Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008), and in partnership with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) presents Robert Rauschenberg’s New York: Pictures from the Real World. This dynamic show explores Rauschenberg’s innovative integration of photography and found objects into his art, reflecting his deep engagement with “the real world” and his complex relationship with New York City.

Event capacity: 20

RSVP here.

Image: Brad Farwell for MCNY.

Tuesday, April 21, 9:30am
Guggenheim Tour of Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10128

Please join us for a tour of Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World, led by curatorial assistant Victoria Horrocks, on Tuesday, April 21 at 9:30am at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Gabriele Münter was at the forefront of modern art in early 20th-century Europe. Constantly experimenting, she revitalized landscape, still life, and portrait painting, transforming everyday subjects into bold, original works. Rather than imitating reality, she sought to “convey an essence,” offering an alternative to modernist movements that favored pure abstraction. 

This exhibition highlights Münter’s lifelong commitment to subjects rooted in daily life and shaped by travel, place, and community. Over fifty paintings are presented across three Tower galleries, alongside nineteen photographs she captured during her extended stay in the United States between 1898 and 1900. Taken with a portable box camera, these early images reveal her sharp eye for composition and light.

Event capacity: 25

RSVP: Emily Sonageri, Senior Manager, Individual Giving, esonageri@guggenheim.org.

Image: Installation view: Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World, November 7, 2025–April 26, 2026, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Photograph by Ariel Ione Williams. © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.

Tuesday, April 21, 10:15am
Curatorial and Artist-Led Tour of Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum 
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2 East 91st St, New York, NY, 10128

Join photographer Christopher Payne and curator Susan Brown for a tour of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s current exhibition, Made In America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne. The exhibition features over 70 large-format color photographs made by Payne over a decade-long journey to document American manufacturing, from places where traditional hand craftsmanship plays a key role to those where humans work side-by-side with robots. “My photographs are a celebration of the making of things, of the transformation of raw materials into useful objects and the human skill and mechanical precision brought to bear on these materials that give them form and purpose,” Payne said. “They are also a celebration of teamwork and community, revealing how people of varying ages and skill levels come together to work toward a common goal.”

Event capacity: 15

RSVP here.

Image: Christopher Payne, Mark Tatum assembling a Discovery IP PET/CT scanner, 2024, GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin). Photo © Christopher Payne/ESTO.

Tuesday, April 21, 12pm
Private Collection Tour: Patrick Montgomery

An intimate private tour of Patrick Montgomery’s vast collection of global 19th-Century photography - including Daguerreotypes, paper negatives, photogravures, early color works, and ephemera - exploring the worldwide origins of the medium. 

Patrick Montgomery is an American documentary producer/director and the former owner of Archive Films/Archive Photos stock image library. He is a member of the National Gallery Photography Initiative and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Photography Sub-Committee and is co-chairman of the Grolier Club Photography Group. In recent years he has specialized in building historical image collections, including The History of Photography Archive, The Travel Film Archive, and The Caribbean Photo Archive, which was acquired by The Art Gallery of Ontario in 2019. 

Event capacity: 15

RSVP here.

Image: William Henry Fox Talbot, Nelson's Column under Construction, Trafalgar Square, London, April, 1844. Courtesy of Patrick Montgomery.

Tuesday, April 21, 7pm
Richard Learoyd in Conversation with Jonathan Binstock at Penumbra Foundation
Penumbra Foundation, 36 East 30 St, New York, NY 10016

Penumbra Foundation is pleased to invite AIPAD VIPs to a lecture with Richard Learoyd in conversation with Jonathan Binstock, part of Penumbra Foundation's Artist Series. 

With an unparalleled passion for the medium and its materials, Richard Learoyd explores the limits of photographic expression in his large-scale color and black-and-white portraits, landscapes and still lifes. Using the antiquarian process of the camera obscura (from Latin for “dark room”), Learoyd's color pictures are unique, direct-positive images produced without film negatives or digital technology. Learoyd’s large-format, black-and-white photographs likewise reference the medium’s heritage, employing the negative/positive process invented by William Henry Fox Talbot nearly two centuries ago. Up to 80 inches wide, they are among the largest gelatin silver contact prints ever made. Learoyd’s most recent body of work utilizes a new and transformative process of multiple impression printing layered with hand-coated gesso on canvas. These multi-dimensional works showcase the artist’s exploration of depth, texture, time, and the relationship between photography and materiality.

Event capacity: 75

RSVP: rsvp@penumbrafoundation.org

Image: © Richard Learoyd / Pace Gallery

Wednesday, April 22, 10:30am & Thursday, April 23, 10:30am
Saul Leiter Studio Tour

Visit the former home studio of photographer and painter Saul Leiter, who lived and worked in this East Village space from 1952 until his death in 2013. The tour will be led by the directors of the Saul Leiter Foundation and will include insights into Leiter's life and career, a look at his library of artbooks, and an overview of his work. 

Event capacity: 10

RSVP and select preferred day of tour here.

Image: Saul Leiter, Near the Tanager, 1954 © Saul Leiter Foundation.

Wednesday, April 22, 11am
Guided Walkthrough at BAXTER ST at CCNY
BAXTER ST at CCNY, 154 Ludlow St, New York, NY 10002

Join us for a guided walkthrough, at BAXTER ST at the Camera Club of New York, of our two solo exhibitions. BAXTER ST at CCNY, founded originally as The Camera Club of New York in 1884, is one of New York’s oldest arts organizations, providing lens-based artists with both working facilities and platforms for discussions as they develop their practice. As a part of our Mid-Career Initiative, we are featuring artist, Hannah Smith Allen, whose work focuses on American political history and landscape. In partnership with YoungArts, we are also featuring 2026 YoungArts BAXTER ST recipient, Spencer Vazquez, whose work explores the intersection of memory, digital media, and the everyday image. For more information, please visit baxterst.org. 

The walkthrough will take place 11am -12pm. For any questions or concerns regarding accessibility, please reach out to BAXTER ST at CCNY's Operations Coordinator, Alex Blackbourn at alex.b@baxterst.org.

Event capacity: 30

RSVP: Ekaterina In, Development Associate, ekaterina@baxterst.org.

Image:  Lloyd McCullough for BAXTER ST at CCNY.

Wednesday, April 22, 11am
Private Collection Tour: Richard Grosbard

VIPs are invited to a tour of the private collection of Richard Grosbard. Richard Grosbard has spent more than five decades doing what he loves most: finding, collecting, and preserving extraordinary photographs. His collection has been exhibited at some of the world's great institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Phillips Collection, and the Centre Pompidou.

Known as an activist collector, Richard has long been a committed presence in New York's photography community. He serves on the Photography Collectors Committee at the Morgan Library & Museum and co-chairs the Photography Group at The Grolier Club, where he brings genuine enthusiasm to the study and appreciation of photographic history.
 

Event capacity: 15

RSVP and learn more here.

Image:Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky). Monsieur ... Inventeur, Constructeur, 6 seconds. 1923, Gelatin silver print.

Wednesday, April 22, 9:30pm
VIP Evening Visit to SUMMIT One Vanderbilt
SUMMIT One Vanderbilt, 45 East 42nd St, New York, NY 10017

AIPAD VIP guests are invited to experience SUMMIT One Vanderbilt after hours and take in the immersive experience at the heart of New York City. Following their visit through the experience, guests will gather at Après, SUMMIT’s lounge space on the top floor, and enjoy a hosted selection of signature cocktails.

Event capacity: 30

RSVP here.

Image: Matt Ritchie, Courtesy of SUMMIT One Vanderbilt.

Thursday, April 23, 10am & 2pm
Burns Collection & Archive Tour
The Burns Archive, 140 East 38th St, New York, NY 10016

Tour the Burns Collection & Archive, one of the world’s largest private collections of historic and documentary photography. Housed in an 1860s townhouse are one million historic photographs from the birth of photography through the atomic age. Over 800 framed images are hung throughout the rooms. One exhibition explores the history of photography, illustrating the art from the daguerreotype to modern silver gelatin prints. Other exhibits focus on African American, medical, war, crime, post-mortem, documentary, and hand-painted photography. Photographs from the Collection have been in exhibitions worldwide, including Musée d’Orsay, Museo Reina Sofia, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Founder Dr. Stanley Burns and his daughter, Elizabeth Burns, Collections Manager, personally guide visitors through the building, sharing insights into their unique historic photography collection. 

Event capacity: 12

*The Burns Archive is not wheelchair accessible.

RSVP: Liz Burns,Creative & Operations Director, liz@burnsarchive.com. When registering, please specify if you are interested in the 10am or 2pm tour.

Thursday, April 23, 10am
Aperture Construction Tour
380 Columbus Ave, New York, NY 10024

Join Executive Director Sarah Meister for a hard hat tour of Aperture’s Upper West Side home as construction nears completion. Set on two floors of a historic building across from the American Museum of Natural History, Aperture’s permanent home will soon become a hub for public engagement, with flexible spaces for programming, a bookstore, and reimagined office areas, designed by award-winning architects LEVENBETTS.

Featuring a ground floor entrance and expansive street presence, this welcoming space signals a renewed, long-term vision for Aperture’s future—one that recognizes Aperture’s critical role in bringing together the array of artists, writers, and enthusiasts who are transformed by photography every day.

Event capacity: 20 

RSVP here.

Image: LEVENBETTS.

Thursday, April 23, 10am
Tour of The Richard Avedon Foundation
451 West 54th St, New York, NY 10019

AIPAD VIPs are invited to an intimate tour of the Richard Avedon Foundation with James Martin, Executive Director. Discover a selection of the Foundation's archive of thousands of prints and 500,000+ negatives, exploring Richard Avedon's extensive and transformative contributions to American portraiture and fashion photography. 

Event capacity: 15

RSVP here.

Image: Richard Avedon, Sunny Harnett and Alla, evening dresses by Balmain, casino, Le Touquet, August 1954. Courtesy of The Richard Avedon Foundation.

Thursday, April 23, 10:30am
Private Tour of ICP’s Winter Exhibitions
International Center of Photography, 84 Ludlow St, New York, NY 10002

Join us for an exclusive tour of two of ICP’s winter exhibitions. Begin with Eugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation, exploring Atget’s career and the pivotal role Berenice Abbott played in shaping his posthumous legacy. The tour will continue with Latitudes: Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré, featuring new work by two laureate artists from Côte d’Ivoire, presented in partnership with the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès and the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris.

Event capacity: 50

RSVP: Aldonza Aguilar, aaguilar@icp.org.

Image: Nuits Balnéaires, Adama et Awa 3, from the series Eboro, 2025 © Nuits Balnéaires.

Friday, April 24, 8-11am
Breakfast at Picto
Picto, 77 Washington Ave, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 112025

Join Picto for an exclusive tour of our historic French lab and art gallery in Clinton Hill. For 75 years, Picto has proudly partnered with the most talented photographers, artists, avant-garde institutions, and galleries, serving the creative community with excellence. Get a behind-the-scenes look at our Fine Art printing and framing department, and enjoy our current art exhibition. Refreshments and French pastries will be served.

Event capacity: 80

RSVP here.

Friday, April 24, 9:30am 
VIP Tour of Sidley’s New York Office Art Collection

Join Cathy Kaplan, retired Sidley partner, for a tour of Sidley’s New York office art collection from 9:30-11am on Friday, April 24. Following a light breakfast, the tour will begin promptly at 10am.

During the tour, Cathy will share her perspective on the significance of featured pieces and how this art reflects both historical and personal narratives of the artists. Featuring artists from diverse backgrounds and notable works of photography, Sidley’s collection includes photographs by Gail Albert Halaban, Dawoud Bey, Graciela Iturbide, William Klein, Zanele Muholi, Liliana Porter, Wendy Red Star, Dana Scruggs, and more.

Cathy Kaplan is a retired Sidley Austin LLP partner. While at Sidley, she curated the NY office art collection. Cathy is of counsel in the Art Law Group of Tjong & Hsia. She chairs the board of Aperture Foundation, co-chairs the Photography Committee of the Whitney Museum, and serves on the boards of the Yale University Art Gallery, Bronx Council on the Arts, and on the Advisors Council at the Brooklyn Museum. Cathy is a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, where she teaches courses on law and finance of the art market and ethics in the visual arts.

Event capacity: 25

RSVP here.

Image: Doug and Mike Starn, Same As It Ever Was, 2023. Courtesy Sidley Austin LLP.

Friday, April 24, 10am
Exhibition Walkthrough with Emmet Gowin and Xin Wang at Pace Gallery
508 West 25th St, New York, NY 10001

Artist Emmet Gowin and Pace's Curatorial Director Xin Wang will lead a walkthrough of Gowin's exhibition Baldwin Street: Photographs 1966-1994 at Pace Gallery in New York on Friday, April 24. In the gallery's intimate setting, Gowin will speak about the photographs on view, a body of portraits of his wife Edith Morris and her extended family taken in Danville, Virginia, over several decades. Captured with tangible care and compassion, they reflect the artist's close relationships with his subjects.

Signed copies of Gowin's new book on the series from Princeton University Press will be available for purchase after the tour, which will conclude with coffee and light breakfast bites. 

Event capacity: 25 

RSVP here with code AIPAD_VIP.

Friday, April 24, 10am
Artist-led Exhibition Tour of On Foot with Esther Levine at NYU Deutsches Haus
NYU Deutsches Haus, 42 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003

AIPAD VIPs are invited to tour the exhibition On Foot with artist Esther Levine. On Foot is a photographic journey by Esther Levine along an invisible line, following memories, family history and stories she grew up with. The Story unfolds through landscapes, roadsides and encounters alongside the path where nothing seems to happen, yet everything does. The Walk follows a line that is both geographical and internal tracing histories buried beneath the surface of the landscape. What emerges is not a document of a route, but a visual record of memory made tangible through the act of walking, noticing, seeing and recording. 

Walking has always been central to Esther Levine's practice. What began as an intuitive method of moving through cities evolved into a conceptual framework: tracing memory and family history through long-distance walks, photographing along the way. Her through-walks function as both physical journeys and acts of research, connecting geography, personal narrative, and historical layers of place. Her work is held in the collections of Princeton University Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, the New York Public Library, as well as in private collections.

Event capacity: 20

RSVP here.

Image: ON FOOT, Esther Levine. 

Friday, April 24, 10:30am
Lillian Bassman: Bazaar & Beyond curatorial tour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028

Assistant Curator Virginia McBride will lead a tour of Lillian Bassman: Bazaar & Beyond. In rare photographs and design experiments from the midcentury magazine world, the show presents Bassman's daring new vision for fashion photography in print.

Event capacity: 25

RSVP: photographs@metmuseum.org.

Image: Lillian Bassman (American, 1917–2012). Solarized Fashion Study, ca. 1960. Gelatin silver print. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Lizzie and Eric Himmel © Estate of Lillian Bassman.

Friday, April 24, 11am
Exhibition Tour of Sophie Rivera: Double Exposures at El Museo del Barrio
El Museo del Barrio, 1230 5th Ave, New York, NY 10029

Join El Museo del Barrio and Aperture for a tour of Sophie Rivera: Double Exposures with Susanna Temkin, El Museo del Barrio’s Interim Chief Curator, and Brendan Embser, Senior Editor at Aperture.

The first museum survey dedicated to the groundbreaking photographer Sophie Rivera (1938–2021), Double Exposures offers a long-overdue reevaluation of Rivera’s contributions to photography and Nuyorican visual culture, while celebrating her deep, historic connection to El Museo—where she organized exhibitions and held her first solo show in the 1980s. Featuring portraits, documentary images, experimental self-portraits, and photographs of New York’s subway and graffiti scenes of the late 1970s, Double Exposures brings together vintage prints and never-before-seen materials from Rivera’s archive. Learn more about the exhibition here.

Event capacity: 25

RSVP here.

Image: Sophie Rivera, Alternator, 1975, printed in 1986. Color photograph. Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York. Gift of Sophie Rivera.

Friday, April 24, 5:30pm
VIP Viewing of the Veterans Room
Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065

Enjoy a VIP viewing of Park Avenue Armory's Veterans Room, the most significant remaining intact interior in the world by Louis C. Tiffany and Co., Associated Artists. 

The room completed a revitalization in 2016 that responds to the original exuberant vision for the room’s design, bringing into dialogue some of the most talented designers of the 19th and 21st centuries—Associated Artists with Herzog & de Meuron and a team of world-renowned artisans and experts in Tiffany glass, fine woodworking, and decorative arts. Learn more about the Veterans Room here.

Event capacity: 40

RSVP here.

Image: James Ewing for Park Avenue Armory.

Saturday, April 25, 10am
AIPAD VIP Member Reception at Penumbra Foundation
Penumbra Foundation, 36 East 30 Street, New York, NY, 10016

Penumbra Foundation welcomes AIPAD VIP guests to a private tour of the foundation and its current exhibitions: a question of matter, a solo exhibition by Morgan Post in our Exhibition Space, and the display of photobooks in our Project Space/Reading Room, showcasing the editorial projects of two young and innovative publishers from Argentina: SED editorial and Asunción Casa Editora. During the tour, guests will learn about Penumbra’s facilities and Public Programs, including its artist residencies and publications, and be treated to special viewings of selected rare titles from the Taubman Library Collection.

RSVP: rsvp@penumbrafoundation.org

Event capacity: 25

Image: © Morgan Post / Penumbra Foundation

Saturday April 26th, 3pm
VIP Exhibition Tours and Aura Photography at the Alice Austen House
Alice Austen House, 2 Hylan Blvd, Staten Island, NY 10305

Join the Alice Austen House for a tour of the museum and current contemporary exhibition Resilient Communities, highlighting contemporary photography from Staten Island. Guests will also have the opportunity to have their portrait taken with the museum's AuraCam6000, a specialized camera system that uses touch sensors to reveal radiant aura fields around the body.

Event Capacity: 25
 

RSVP here.

Image: Alice Austen, The Darned Club, 1891. Courtesy of the Alice Austen House.

The Benjamin Royal Sonesta Hotel
The Benjamin Royal Sonesta Hotel in Midtown offers luxurious newly renovated guest rooms and suites, kitchenettes in all rooms and terraces with views of New York city along with the coveted Rest & Renew sleep program.

Reservation booking: link here
Telephone Contact: (866) 222-2365
Location: 125 East 50th Street, New York, New York, 10022
Please reserve by March 19, 2026
Price: ~$400

The Gardens Sonesta ES Suites Hotel
The Gardens Sonesta ES Suites Hotel is the picture-perfect tranquil hideaway for extended stays on the Upper East Side offering all suites, kitchens, and private patios/terraces. 

Reservation booking: link here
Telephone Contact: (866) 222-2365
Location: 215 East 64th Street, New York, New York, 10065
Please reserve by March 19, 2026
Price: ~$400

The Fifty Sonesta Hotel
Experience the energy of Midtown at The Fifty Sonesta Hotel ideal for guests looking for a mix of work and play with spacious guest rooms and suites with kitchenettes, terraces, and the option to upgrade and enjoy daily breakfast on-site in the Second Floor Club Room.

Reservation booking: link here
Telephone Contact: (866) 222-2365
Location: 155 East 50th Street, New York, New York, 10022
Please reserve by March 19, 2026
Price: ~$300

Park Central Hotel New York
Midtown convenience. Classic hospitality. Complete comfort. A celebrated past. Whether visiting for business or pleasure, you’ll be comfortable here at the Park Central Hotel New York – located squarely amidst New York’s most popular sights and hotels in Midtown Manhattan.

Reservation booking: link here
Email Contact: RAblao@parkcentralny.com
Location: 870 7th Avenue, New York, New York, 10019
Please reserve by March 2, 2026
Price: ~$300

The Evelyn Hotel
The Evelyn Hotel's design showcases the Art Nouveau style of the early 1900's while reflecting the neighborhood's music and art heritage that dates back over a century.

Reservation booking: link here
Telephone Contact: (855) 468-3501
Location: 7 East 27th Street, New York, New York 10016
Please reserve by March 23, 2026
Price: ~$300

The Empire Hotel
Located at the gateway to the Upper West Side, the Empire Hotel reflects the earthy tones and modernism of our illustrious nearby neighbors, Central Park and Lincoln Center. Step part our Art Deco facade to find yourself greeted by bold and glamorous interiors with the vibe of a retro NYC lounge from the 1960s.

Reservation booking: link here
Telephone Contact: (212) 265-7400
Location: 44 West 63rd Street, New York, New York, 10023
Please reserve by March 6, 2026
Price: ~$280

The Freehand Hotel
Located in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, Freehand New York combines the soul of a historic hotel with the energy of a modern social hub. Set in the former George Washington Hotel, the property features artist-designed rooms, creative gathering spaces, and vibrant food and beverage venues, including the award-winning Broken Shaker rooftop bar. Ideal for travelers seeking style, comfort, and connection, Freehand NYC captures the spirit of New York’s culture and community. 

Reservation booking: link here
Telephone Contact: (212) 475-1920
Location: 23 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York, 10010
Please reserve by March 19, 2026
Price: ~$250