New York City Salons included an opening week visit to the exhibition 'Sensation' and a conversation and review of the exhibit by an art critic at The New York Times, a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge with an architectural historian, a meeting with a Columbia University art history professor who has questioned current art restoration practices, a meeting with an NYU professor about how painter Chuck Close's work blurs the line between science and art, a dinner with one of America's top Spanish chefs, visits to Tribeca artists studios, and a ticket to a Broadway play.