Bringley Patrick
Bringley Patrick - All The Beauty In The World The Metropolitan Museum Of Art And Me - Hardcover
Bringley Patrick - All The Beauty In The World The Metropolitan Museum Of Art And Me - Hardcover
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Description: A best book of the year from New York Public Library NPR the Financial Times Book Riot and the Sunday Times (London). A fascinating revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard. Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They re the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits keeping a watchful eye on the two million square foot treasure house. Caught up in his glamorous fledgling career at The New Yorker Patrick Bringley never thought he d be one of them. Then his older brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer and he found himself needing to escape the mundane clamor of daily life. So he quit The New Yorker and sought solace in the most beautiful place he knew. To his surprise and the reader's delight this temporary refuge becomes Bringley's home away from home for a decade. We follow him as he guards delicate treasures from Egypt to Rome strolls the labyrinths beneath the galleries wears out nine pairs of company shoes and marvels at the beautiful works in his care. Bringley enters the museum as a ghost silent and almost invisible but soon finds his voice and his tribe: the artworks and their creators and the lively subculture of museum guards a gorgeous mosaic of artists musicians blue - collar stalwarts immigrants cutups and dreamers. As his bonds with his colleagues and the art grow he comes to understand how fortunate he is to be walled off in this little world and how much it resembles the best aspects of the larger world to which he gradually gratefully returns. In the tradition of classic workplace memoirs like Lab Girl and Working Stiff All The Beauty in the World is a surprising inspiring portrait of a great museum its hidden treasures and the people who make it tick by one of its most intimate observers.
Title: All The Beauty In The World The Metropolitan Museum Of Art And Me
Author(s): Bringley Patrick
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781982163303
Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/14/2023
Category: Memoirs
Description: A best book of the year from New York Public Library NPR the Financial Times Book Riot and the Sunday Times (London). A fascinating revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard. Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They re the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits keeping a watchful eye on the two million square foot treasure house. Caught up in his glamorous fledgling career at The New Yorker Patrick Bringley never thought he d be one of them. Then his older brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer and he found himself needing to escape the mundane clamor of daily life. So he quit The New Yorker and sought solace in the most beautiful place he knew. To his surprise and the reader's delight this temporary refuge becomes Bringley's home away from home for a decade. We follow him as he guards delicate treasures from Egypt to Rome strolls the labyrinths beneath the galleries wears out nine pairs of company shoes and marvels at the beautiful works in his care. Bringley enters the museum as a ghost silent and almost invisible but soon finds his voice and his tribe: the artworks and their creators and the lively subculture of museum guards a gorgeous mosaic of artists musicians blue - collar stalwarts immigrants cutups and dreamers. As his bonds with his colleagues and the art grow he comes to understand how fortunate he is to be walled off in this little world and how much it resembles the best aspects of the larger world to which he gradually gratefully returns. In the tradition of classic workplace memoirs like Lab Girl and Working Stiff All The Beauty in the World is a surprising inspiring portrait of a great museum its hidden treasures and the people who make it tick by one of its most intimate observers.
Title: All The Beauty In The World The Metropolitan Museum Of Art And Me
Author(s): Bringley Patrick
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781982163303
Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/14/2023
Category: Memoirs
