Author Interview: Patrick Bringley's "All the Beauty in the World"

Hi there, everyone, and welcome to a bonus episode of Art Curious. Today, I'm happy to share with you an excellent conversation that I had over the summer with Patrick Bringley, the author of the wonderful book, All the Beauty in the World, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me, which is a revelatory portrait of the Met and its treasures by a

former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade working as a museum guard. Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They are the guards, who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits, keeping a watchful eye on the two million square foot treasure house.