United States Private and Small Group Walking Tours

The Met Museum tour was outstanding. Our guide, a Columbia University art professor, selected a variety of art objects to explore interesting issues and controversies in the art world. For example, why are ancient Egyptian sculptures more durable than Greek or Roman figures? How did Greek and Roman artists influence ancient Indian sculptors? Why were Gilded Age robber barons motivated to leave their priceless art collections to museums? Or why does today’s financial system discourage artistic creativity compared to the recent past? In short, this tour is a highly original excursion into the both the Met”s collection and art history. Highly recommended tour for both art novices and the more experienced aficionados.

Our New York in a Half-Day Tour was excellent. For first-time visitors, this tour will serve as the perfect introduction to the city’s many iconic sites: Central Park, Times Square, the NY City Library, the Empire State building, Rockefeller Center, Grand Central Station, among others. Our guide, a trained academic historian, provided fascinating stories of New York’s past leaders and business figures, explaining their impact on the city’s development. Along the way, he also identified and exploded interesting metropolitan myths. A highly recommended tour.

Our three-hour tour at the National Gallery of Art was outstanding. Our guide, a working art professor, selected important paintings from the Late Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Impressionist, and Post-Impressionist periods as vehicles to both explain the changes in Western art from the late fourteenth to early twéntieth centuries, and to highlight the special strengths of the National Gallery’s collection. Her commentary was lucid, interesting, and informative, pitched perfectly for a non specialist audience. Finally, her manner was warm, approachable, and personable. Highly recommended.