TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bringley,Patrick
TI  - All the beauty in the world: the Metropolitan Museum of Art and me 
SN  - 9781982163303
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Bringley, Patrick.
KW  - Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - Employees
KW  - Biography
KW  - Art museums
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226); 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
N2  - "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"--; "Only a few select people enjoy unrestricted access to every nook and cranny of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and among them are the guards who keep a watchful eye on the two-million-square-foot treasure house. For Bringley, the Museum was a temporary refuge that became his home away from home for a decade. Here he explores his tribe: the artworks and their creators and the subculture of museum guards. Though Bringley gradually returned to the larger world, here he explores the Museum's hidden wonders-- and the people who make it tick."--
ER  -