Patrick Bringley
All the Beauty in the World: A Museum Guard's Adventures in Life, Loss and Art
All the Beauty in the World: A Museum Guard's Adventures in Life, Loss and Art
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A museum guard's memoir, "The Museum Guard," was named the Sunday Times Art Book of the Year and the Financial Times Best Book of 2023. It offers a revealing portrait of life in a great museum and the moving story of the guard's quest for solace and meaning in art.
Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 16 March 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
The Sunday Times Art Book of the Year
A Sunday Times and Financial Times Best Book of 2023
A revelatory portrait of life in 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 the year would have been written not by a curator or an art historian or even an artist, but by a museum guard?
Sunday Times
Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase into New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. Patrick Bringley never thought he'd be one of them. But when his brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer, he quit his journalism job and sought peace in the most beautiful place he knew. To his surprise, this temporary refuge becomes his home away from home for a decade.
Bringley enters the museum as a ghost, silent and almost invisible, but soon finds his voice and place among the lively subculture of museum guards. As his bonds with colleagues and the art grow, he learns 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.
A work as luminous as the old masters' paintings
Daily Mail
Outstanding
Sunday Times
Consoling and beautiful
Guardian
Marvellous
Daily Telegraph
Weight: 396g
Dimension: 207 x 243 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781847926678
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