Wednesday, April 16, 8-11am
Breakfast at Picto NY
77 Washington Ave, Floor 3, Brooklyn, NY 11205

Join Picto NY for an exclusive tour of our historic French lab and art gallery in Clinton Hill.

For 75 years, Picto NY 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 will be served.

Event capacity: 80

RSVP: camille@pictony.com

Wednesday, April 23, 10am
Curator-Led Tour of Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit at the Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238

Please join us for a tour of Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit led by Pauline Vermare, Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum on Wednesday, April 23, at 10am.

For 60 years, Consuelo Kanaga (American, 1894–1978) used her camera to confront urgent social issues of her time, from urban poverty to labor rights to racial terror and inequality. Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit charts the artist’s groundbreaking work and life story, shedding light on this critical yet overlooked figure in modern photography. Following an international tour, the retrospective returns to the Brooklyn Museum, which houses the world’s most extensive Kanaga collection. Nearly 200 photographs, ephemera, and films trace the evolution of her art across time and theme, whether portraits of artists or scenes in the U.S. South. 

Upon arrival to the Brooklyn Museum, please enter via the Main Entrance at 200 Eastern Parkway. Please meet at the KAWS sculpture in the Lobby of the Museum where a Museum staff member will be checking guests in.

Event capacity: 20

RSVP: Lorena Linero Lopez, Assistant Manager of Board Relations, Lorena.LineroLopez@brooklynmuseum.org

Wednesday, April 23, 10am
Private Tour of the Rodney Smith Archive at Snedens Landing 

Join us for an exclusive viewing during AIPAD at the meticulously restored estate of photographer Rodney Smith, whose work is characterized by whimsical surrealism and theatrical storytelling. Located in historic Snedens Landing, an artists' enclave just 30 minutes from Manhattan, this rare opportunity allows museum directors and curators to experience an immersive environment that feels like stepping into one of Smith’s photographs. 

Getty Curator Paul Martineau observed "Snedens Landing became for Smith what Oyster Bay had become for the fashion photographer Horst P. Horst: a retreat, a showplace, and a workplace that was a short drive from Manhattan but seemed a world away from the city. Smith designed the gardens and other outdoor spaces with his work in mind, as he increasingly relied on them as a setting for his shoots”. Curator Anne Morin notes, “this house is really a self-portrait in a way. You really understand the work once you visit the house”.

Tour the 1840s main house galleries, view original gelatin silver prints, archival contact sheets and negatives in the 1920’s cottage archive, and visit the beautifully landscaped grounds where iconic photographs were created—all providing invaluable context for institutions looking to collect, exhibit, or interpret this significant American photographer's work. 

Event capacity: 20
Luxury Transportation from The Park Avenue Armory to Snedens Landing will be provided via Shuttle, departing at 10 am and returning at 2 pm. Lunch will be served.

RSVP: studio@rodneysmith.com

Image: Rodney Smith, Twins in Tree, Snedens Landing, New York, 1999

Wednesday, April 23, 11am
Aperture Construction Tour
380 Columbus Ave, New York, NY 10024

Join Aperture Executive Director Sarah Meister for a hard hat tour of Aperture’s future Upper West Side home.

Stationed within two floors of a historic building in the heart of New York’s Upper West Side, the new space situates Aperture at the nexus of a vibrant residential neighborhood and bustling tourist destination—across from the American Museum of Natural History and blocks from the New-York Historical Society and Central Park—providing access to a wider-than-ever spectrum of local and international audiences. Award-winning architecture practice LEVENBETTS is designing flexible spaces for public events, small-scale exhibitions and art installations, the Aperture bookstore, and reimagined office and production spaces for Aperture’s robust publishing program, all while retaining the building’s historic character. 

The highly visible and 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, institutions, and enthusiasts that are transformed by photography every day.

Event capacity: 20

RSVP here

Thursday, April 24 & Friday, April 25, 10am
Burns Collection & Archive Tour
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 nineteenth-century collection. 

Event capacity: 12

*The Burns Archive is not wheelchair accessible.

RSVP: Liz Burns, Creative and Operations Director, liz@burnsarchive.com. When registering, please specify if you are interested in the Thursday or Friday morning tour.

Thursday, April 24, 10:15 am
Curator-led tour of The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028

Please join us for a tour of The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910 with the exhibition’s curator Jeff L. Rosenheim. This exhibition presents a bold new history of American photography from the medium’s birth in 1839 to the first decade of the 20th century. Drawn from The Met’s William L. Schaeffer Collection, major works by lauded artists such as Josiah Johnson Hawes, John Moran, Carleton Watkins, and Alice Austen are shown in dialogue with extraordinary photographs by obscure or unknown practitioners made in small towns and cities from coast to coast.

Event capacity: 25 

RSVP: photographs@metmuseum.org

Thursday, April 24, 11am
Tour of Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028

Please join us for a tour of Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans with Anastasia Samoylova and the exhibition’s curator Mia Fineman. The exhibition brings together photographs and paintings of Florida by two artists of different generations who have sought to understand the state’s complexity and contradictions.

Event capacity: 25

RSVP: photographs@metmuseum.org

Image: Anastasia Samoylova (American, born Russia, 1984). Venus Mirror, Miami, 2020 © Anastasia Samoylova

Thursday, April 24, 4:30pm
Onsite VIP Tour: Cig Harvey and Robert Mann Gallery
643 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065

Join photographer and writer Cig Harvey and Robert Mann Gallery for a VIP tour of Harvey's favorite works on view at The Photography Show 2025. Cig Harvey is a British born artist and writer, who lives in Maine, USA, working in large scale color photography and creative non-fiction. She uses both images and language to explore sensory experiences and elevate the everyday.  Cig is celebrating the brand new release of her latest book, Emerald Drifters (Monacelli/Phaidon). Rich in implied narrative, deeply rooted in the natural world, her work is devoted to the topic of what it is to feel. Her photographs and books are in the permanent collections of many museums and private collections across the world including The Library of Congress (New York); Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Massachusetts; Philadelphia Museum of Art, (Pennsylvania); Yale University; Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, Texas); the Farnsworth Art Museum (Maine, USA); the International Museum of Photography and Film at the George Eastman House (New York), and the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection.

Event capacity: 20

RSVP here

Thursday, April 24, 5:30pm
Onsite VIP Tour: Rashod Tayor and Obscura Gallery
643 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065

Join photographer Rashod Tayor and Obscura Gallery for a VIP tour of Taylor's favorite works on view at The Photography Show 2025. 

Rashod Taylor is a fine art and portrait photographer whose work addresses themes of family, intimacy, legacy, and the black experience. At this edition of The Photography Show, Obscura Gallery presents Rashod Taylor's ‘My America’, a meditation on history and its undeniable grip on the present. On 'My America', Taylor says, "As a Black man with deep family ties to military service, my great-uncle Lecky Taylor served in WWII, alongside many of my cousins in future generations, I often ask, what is patriotism? How does one fight for a country that denies them dignity? This tension runs through my work, exposing the ways racism, inequality, and injustice are not relics of the past but forces still shaping Black life today."

 Taylor's photographs are part of the permanent collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture, The Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Event capacity: 20

RSVP here

Image: Rashod Taylor, Sugar Cane, Whitney Plantation, 2024, 20 x 24", unique tintype

Friday, April 25, 10am and 12pm
Guided Tour of the Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065

VIPs are invited to take a guided tour of the Park Avenue Armory and view the unique qualities of this landmark building, from the soaring 55,000 square foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall to the extraordinary interiors by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, Candace Wheeler, Herter Brothers and others.

The 75-minute walking tour covers the first floor period rooms including the magnificent Board of Officers Room and Veterans Room, views the vast Drill Hall, and some of the second floor areas not normally on view to the public. The Armory’s history, restoration and renovation plans by renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, and the building’s new life as a New York City cultural institution will all be discussed.

Event capacity: 30 

RSVP here

Friday, April 25, 11am
Explore ICP’s Winter Exhibitions: Weegee: Society of the Spectacle, To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography, and American Job 1940-2011.
84 Ludlow St, New York, NY 10002

Join us at ICP for a private guided walking tour of the exhibitions Weegee: Society of the Spectacle, To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography, and American Job 1940-2011.

Weegee: Society of the Spectacle aims to reconcile Weegee's broad photographic career through an investigation of his focus on a critique of 20th century popular culture and its insatiable appetite for spectacle.

To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography reimagines what an archive can be or might look like—more than just a means of recuperating the past, these artists utilize the archive as a form for imagining new futures.

American Job: 1941-2011 surveys the photographic response to labor organizing and strike activity, race and gender discrimination in labor, organized labor’s role in politics, labor and activism, and the intersection of labor and the social changes wrought by the economic restructurings of the twentieth century.

Event capacity: 30

RSVP: Lucig Kebranian, Associate Director of Individual Giving, Lkebranian@icp.org

Saturday, April 26, 10am
Curator walkthrough of “dearly Loved friends:” Photographs by Sheyla Baykal, 1965-1997, at Soft Network
636 Broadway Suite 320, New York, NY 10012

Join scholar Marcelo Gabriel Yáñez and Soft Network Executive Director Chelsea Spengemann for a tour of the first posthumous exhibition dedicated to photographs by Sheyla Baykal. Curated by Yáñez with Penny Arcade, the exhibition is composed from a mixture of prints, slide shows, and archival material and emphasizes Baykal's community-based approach to photographic portraiture of the queer east village arts scene 1960s-1990s.

Event capacity: 30

RSVP: Chelsea Spengemann, Executive Director, chelsea@softnetwork.art

Image: Sheyla Baykal, Angel Jack (1973), Gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 inches. Copyright Estate of Sheyla Baykal.

Saturday, April 26, 10am
AIPAD VIP 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: Marriage Material by Cheryl Mukherji and The Puppet Master by Diana Michener. 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.

Event capacity: 25

RSVP: rsvp@penumbrafoundation.org

Image: Diana Michener, from the series The Puppet Master, © Diana Michener/ Penumbra Foundation, 2025

Saturday April 26th, 11am & 3pm
Alice Austen House Museum Exhibition and Collection Tour
2 Hylan Blvd, Staten Island, NY 10305

Enjoy a museum educator-led tour of the museum and current contemporary exhibition ONE DAY, a previously unseen photo series by seminal artists Marlene McCarty and Donald Moffett. Following the tour, attendees will 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. VIPs are also invited to join for a Photowalk Series taking place inbetween the scheduled tours.

Event Capacity: 20
 

RSVP here; please select your preferred access time, 11am or 3pm.

Image: Marlene McCarty and Donald Moffett, ONE DAY

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, 2025

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, 2025

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, 2025

The Shelburne Sonesta Hotel
The Shelburne Sonesta Hotel offers the perfect city retreat in the historic Murray Hill neighborhood with spacious guest rooms and suites with kitchenettes and terraces, on-site dining at Take Care Restaurant and year-round rooftop cocktails and light bites with inspiring Empire State Building views from Vintage Green. 

Reservation booking: link here
Telephone Contact: (866) 222-2365
Location: 303 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York, 10016
Please reserve by March 19, 2025

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 7, 2025

The Freehand Hotel
Located in Manhattan's Flatiron District, Freehand New York is housed in the former George Washington Hotel - once home to many storied writers, musicians and creatives. Designed by Roman and Willams and featuring custom-commissioned artwork by Bard College students and alumni throughout, we're revializing the artistic community in a historic NY neighborhood. 

Reservation booking: link here
Telephone Contact: (212) 475-1920
Location: 23 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York, 10010
Please reserve by March 19, 2025