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Nov 7, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Patrick Bringley |Isabelle McConville
Beauty, Strangeness, and Silent Presence: A Guest Post by Patrick Bringley Patrick Bringley never thought he’d end up as a security guard at the Met, and he never could have guessed how it’d change his entire life. Explore the hallowed halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art like only a former security guard can. Read on for Patrick’s exclusive essay on how All the Beauty in the World came to be, down below.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
booksellercrow.co.uk | Helen Garner |Stéphane Carlier |Patrick Bringley |Gabriel García Márquez
When: 2nd May 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:15 pm 2024-05-02T19:30:00+01:00 2024-05-02T21:15:00+01:00 Where: The Bookseller Crow50 Westow StLondon SE19 3AFUK Contact: Keiran Goddard will be in conversation with Bookseller Crow on Thursday 2nd May, 7.30pm.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
booksellercrow.co.uk | Helen Garner |Stéphane Carlier |Patrick Bringley |Gabriel García Márquez
When: 28th March 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:15 pm 2024-03-28T19:30:00+00:00 2024-03-28T21:15:00+00:00 Where: The Bookseller Crow 50 Westow St London SE19 3AF UK Contact: Join us for an evening with John Rogers in conversation with Travis Elborough about his new book, Welcome to New London – Journeys and Encounters in the Post-Olympic City. In Welcome to New London John Rogers invites us to join him on a captivating voyage through the ever-changing landscapes and communities of this iconic city. As a...
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
bookriot.com | Freya Marske |Claire McMillan |Claire Mcmillan |Patrick Bringley |Blythe Roberson
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. We only want the best for you, and that’s why we’re sharing the best books of 2023! If these haven’t already made your list, be sure to add them to your TBR. From nonfiction to romance to children’s to horror — and everywhere in between — we’ve got you covered.
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Mar 16, 2023 | 
lithub.com | Patrick Bringley
The day of my brother’s funeral was meant to have been my wedding day. We had booked the hall, hired the band; we had even been married, a stop at city hall a few weeks prior to the big white event. Tom and Krista were meant to have been our witnesses that day, but at the last moment the call came that Tom was too weak. And if we tied the knot at the Queens city clerk’s office instead? Too weak. This was June third, 2008. He died on the twenty-second.
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Mar 6, 2023 | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | Patrick Bringley
When in June of 2008, Tom died, Patrick says he applied for the most straightforward job he could think of in the most beautiful place he knewIn the basement of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, below the Arms and Armor wing and outside the guards’ Dispatch Office, there are stacks of empty art crates. The crates come in all shapes and sizes; some are big and boxy, others wide and deep like paintings, but they are uniformly imposing, fit to ship rare treasures or exotic beasts.
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Mar 1, 2023 | 
marconews.com | Patrick Bringley
"All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me" By Patrick Bringley c. 2023, Simon & Schuster $27.99, 240 pages One hundred eighty degrees. That's where you want to be after something very bad has occurred. You want as far as possible away from it, miles out of reach, an exact opposite situation, pronto, thank you. A new schedule, different place, rearrangement, anything that's not that anymore.
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Feb 26, 2023 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Patrick Bringley
With his engaging voice, Patrick Bringley takes the listener inside New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in a uniquely personal way. Having been a museum guard for 10 years, he offers keenly detailed observations of visitors, his fellow guards, and the art itself. The former NEW YORKER staffer narrates his insightful and detailed memoir in a resonant voice with slightly clipped speech, switching to lively expression for dialogue with patrons and co-workers.
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Feb 24, 2023 | 
infodig.com.ng | Patrick Bringley
This week: Nigeria heads to the polls this weekend; what are the implications for its museums and art scene? Dolly Kola-Balogun, director of the Retro Africa gallery in Abuja, reflects on the candidates and discusses the importance of art, and culture more widely, to the country’s future.
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Feb 20, 2023 | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Patrick Bringley |Ann Levin
"All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me" by Patrick Bringley. Photo: APWhen his older brother died of cancer at age 26, Patrick Bringley’s life was upended. Not even two years younger, Bringley quit his “high-flying desk job” at the New Yorker magazine and in a profound act of mourning, went to work as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum — “the most straight-forward job I could think of in the most beautiful place I knew.” Yes, a guard. Proud member of DC 37 Local 1503.
