All the beauty in the world

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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.

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the new york times bestseller and sunday times art book of the year 2023 a revelatory portrait of a great museum and the moving story of one guard s quest to find solace and meaning in art who would have thought that the outstanding art book of you would have been written not by a curator or an Uiterlijk 24 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

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the new york times bestseller and sunday times art book of the year 2023 a revelatory portrait of a great museum and the moving story of one guard s quest to find solace and meaning in art who would have thought that the outstanding art book of you would have been written not by a curator or Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

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brought to you by penguin millions of people climb the grand marble staircase into new york s metropolitan museum of art every year but only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny they re the guards in dark blue suits keeping careful watch over this vast treasure house Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 14 februari 2023

Aantal pagina's: 240

Hoofdauteur: Patrick Bringley

Hoofduitgeverij: Simon & Schuster

Product breedte: 157 mm

Product hoogte: 25 mm

Product lengte: 231 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 157 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm

Verpakking lengte: 231 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 386 g

EAN: 9781982163303

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