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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Bringley, Patrick, author.     Subjects     Bringley, Patrick.     Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Employees -- Biography.     Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)     Art museums -- New York (State) -- New York.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bringley, Patrick, author.       by title:      All the beauty in th...         MARC Display

All the beauty in the world : the Metropolitan Museum of Art and me / Patrick Bringley. by Bringley, Patrick, author. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023. Subjects Bringley, Patrick.   Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Employees -- Biography.   Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)   Art museums -- New York (State) -- New York. ISBN:  9781982163303 (hardcover) : 1982163305 (hardcover) : Description:  ix, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Contents:  The grand staircase -- Windows -- A Pietà -- Of millions of years -- Further shores -- Flesh and blood -- Cloisters -- Sentinels -- Kouros -- The veteran -- Unfinished -- Days' work -- As much as I can carry. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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 held 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."-- Publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Nonfiction 708.1471 Bringley Br Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 708.1471 Bringley Br Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 708.1471 Bringley Br item being mended Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 708.1471 Bringley Br Checked In Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Nonfiction 708.1471 Bringley Br Checked In Add Copy to MyList Manoa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 708.1471 Bringley Br Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pearl City Public Library Adult Nonfiction 708.1471 Bringley Br Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wailuku Public Library Adult Nonfiction 708.1471 Bringley Br Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waimanalo P/S Library Adult Biography B Bringley Br Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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