Behind the velvet ropes: Thoughts from a Met museum guard
by Barbara Spindel
Feb 16, 2023
3 minutes
Patrick Bringley spent a decade as a guard at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, but don’t expect any scandalous behind-the-scenes revelations in his appealing and tender memoir, “All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me.” Instead, the author chronicles his personal transformation amid a magnificent collection of galleries watched over by a diverse and genial workforce.
Bringley hadn’t set out to work at the Met. With a
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