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    'All the Beauty in the World' conveys Met guard's profound appreciation for art

    Patrick Bringley's story — he jumped off the career ladder, deliberately taking a position divorced from ambition in order to find the space for quiet contemplation — is oddly suited to our times.
    by Heller McAlpin Feb 14, 2023 3 minutes
    Source: Simon & Schuster

    All the Beauty in the World, Patrick Bringley's memoir about his ten years working as a guard at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, brings new meaning to the term "art appreciation." In the pantheon of winning books about the Met, it is right up there with E.L. Konigsburg's From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

    Like the runaway siblings in Konigsburg's 1968 Newbery Medal-winner — who unlock secrets about the museum's treasures after camping out in its hallowed halls (sleeping in an ornate 16th

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