PAST EVENTS

Annual Art Tour with Alard von Rohr to Brussels, Belgium with day visits to Antwerp, Ghent and Bruges.
Afternoon luncheon reception honoring Ai Weiwei hosted in a private townhouse in Manhattan
Evening Cocktail Reception for honoree Ewa Juszkiewicz at a private terrace in Manhattan overlooking the MoMa Sculpture Garden
"A Day of Art in the Hamptons" - A group of American Friends traveled to the Water Mill home of a Board Member and her husband to view their collection. The collection included works by Louise Nevelson, Hernan Bas, Milton Avery, Sol LeWitt, Jennifer Bartlett and Niki de Saint Phalle, among others. The residence is the former home of Julie Andrews and included outdoor sculptures, a secret garden, and barn. The visit was followed by a three-course French inspired brunch at Pierre's in Bridgehampton and a talk by gallerist Mark Borghi in his Sag Harbor gallery. The gallery's specialty is American Post-War Art.
Privately guided tour of the Noguchi Museum followed by three course lunch at SHI
Annual Fine Art Benefit Auction, in collaboration with Artsy, was hosted with works from around the world including Norbert Bisky, John Madu, Alex Katz, Minjung Kim, Tracey Emin, Haley Josephs, Richard Serra, Federico Herrero, Corey Mason, Damien Hirst, Jannis Varelas, Henning Strassburger, John McAllister, André Butzer, Marcus Jansen and many others. Over 70 works on offer included paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, and work on paper.
Annual Art Tour with Alard von Rohr, Dubai, Abu Dhabi & Qatar
Annual Cocktail Reception, Art & Dinner at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel - guests enjoyed viewing a special edition by Yue Minjun, recipient of the "Outstanding Achievements in the Contemporary Arts" award, as well as other works while sipping cocktails and mingling in the Library. A three-course dinner was served in the Drawing room with welcoming remarks by David Genser, Chairman, followed by key-note speaker Ann-Marie Richard, Director, New York Sotheby’s Institute of Art, who spoke about “The State of the Art Market”. Special guest, Eilat Lieber, Director and Chief Curator of the Tower of David Jerusalem Museum, a partner museum, concluded the presentations with a description on the progress on the museums’ $50 million renewal and conservation project and welcomed all to join at their re-opening in March 2023.
An "Afternoon of Art" included an outdoor luncheon at Avra Madison Estiatorio followed by a privately guided VIP Tour of highlights of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Costume Institute’s two-part exhibition In America: An Anthology of Fashion and A Lexicon of Fashion were visited as well.
Annual Benefit Fine Art Auction, in collaboration with Artsy, with 75 works of art ranging from paintings and sculptures to photographs and works on paper from noted artists around the world including John Baldessari, Christiane Baumgartner, Katherine Bernhardt, Ewerdt Hilgemann, Damien Hirst, Alex Katz, Jeff Koons, Beatriz Milhazes, Robert Motherwell, Shirin Neshat, Odinakachi Okoroafor, Tom Otterness, Richard Prince, and Sayed Haider Raza, among many others.
A live Virtual Studio Visit with Stephan Balkenhol in his studio in Germany.
A live Virtual Studio Visit with Jaume Plensa in his Barcelona studio.
A private evening at the Peter Blum Gallery with a presentation by Peter Blum and David Blum on how an artist is chosen for representation and how gallerists develop an artist's career. A guided tour of works by ‘John Zurier: The Future of Ice’ followed.
Annual Benefit Fine Art Auction, in collaboration with Artsy, with over 65 works ranging from paintings and sculptures to photographs and works on paper from noted artists around the world including Jeff Koons, Chuck Close, Kiki Smith, Jim Dine, Liam Gillick, Damien Hirst, Edward Burtynsky, Dongi Lee, Conrad Shawcross, Shirin Neshat, Robert Longo, Philip Taaffe, among many others.
A Zoom Conversation in the Berlin home of Art Collector Manuela Alexejew with London based art historian Alard von Rohr
Zoom Talk with Alard von Rohr on Art & Architecture in the UAE and Qatar.
Annual Benefit Fine Art Auction, in collaboration with Artsy, included over 60 contemporary works of art. Works by Donald Sultan, Ed Ruscha, Janet Taylor Pickett, Jeff Koons, Jonas Burgert, Secundino Hernández, Ai Weiwei, Lee Ufan, Laurie Simmons and many others of equal merit were auctioned.
A privately guided tour of M&S Schmalberg, a fourth-generation family-owned fabric flower factory in the heart of Manhattan’s Garment District that as been hand-making custom flower creations for over 100 years for the public and fashion houses such as Oscar de la Renta, Ralph Lauren, Marc Jacobs and others. Watch a live demonstration by artisans using century-old cutting machines and hydraulic presses still in operation as well as shopping for your own fabric flower.
Lunch at The Wright, an award winning restaurant at the Guggenheim Museum, followed by an architectural-focused tour of the Museum led by a Museum Educator. An in-depth look at Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterful architectural elements including access to non-public areas such as the subterranean theater and a secret balcony overlooking Central Park.
Annual European Art Tour with Alard von Rohr, Venice, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna
Cocktail Reception for Richard Misrach at a private home in Beverly Hills, CA
Private Studio visit to hyper-realist sculptor, Carole A. Feuerman
Local Projects with Principal Jake Barton giving a studio presentation and demonstration on their collaboration with the Tower of David Jerusalem Museum’s renovation project of the Kishle
Evening Reception for Daniel Arsham at Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden the former Abigail Adams Smith House
Young Collectors hosted a visit to see Sankofa Danzafro Dance Troupe at the Joyce Theatre with music, live drumming and singing. Reception and post-performance Q & A with the dancers
A traditional Japanese tea ceremony demonstration in a Secret Kyoto Garden - led by a Tea master of Urasenke, experienced in a building that in the 1880s was a carriage house and then studio of famed artist Mark Rothko
Annual European Art Tour with Alard von Rohr to the South of France – Aix-En-Provence, Marseille, Arles, Cote d’Azur
Private Tour of the Whitney Studio, now part of the New York Studio School, to see the historic space that was not only once home to the Whitney Museum of Art, but also the workspace of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and many more artists. Followed by luncheon at Margaux in The Marlton Hotel
Cocktail Reception for Tracey Emin hosted in a private Tribeca loft followed by a Q & A with the artist
Annual European Art Tour with Alard von Rohr, Naples and Sicily
Young Collectors Cocktail Reception and Silent Auction hosted at De Buck Gallery in Chelsea
Scavenger Hunt for the Young Collectors hosted in the Metropolitan Museum of Art followed by a reception in the home of a private collector on Sutton Place
Personal guided tour of the private art collection of Jerry Speyer in this Manhattan home and offices at Rockefeller Center
Annual European Art Tour with Alard von Rohr, Milan and Turin
Cocktail Reception for Thomas Ruff at the home of a Manhattan collector
Private lecture at the FIT Museum with a discussion on 20th Century fashions followed by a viewing of the current exhibitions
VIP Tour of Mana Contemporary to see new exhibitions, visit the Richard Meier Model Museum, observe the Keating Foundry, an on-site metal casting facility for sculpture, watch a rehearsal of the contemporary dance company Rocha Dance Theatre, visiting Gary Lichtenstein Editions, a printer and publisher, visiting and speaking with various artists in their studios. Lunch on site.