Meet the Author: Patrick Bringley

Join us at Richland Library Main to reflect on the power of art and museums with author Patrick Bringley as he discusses his book All the Beauty in the World, documenting his time as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bringley describes the unique subculture of museum guards, the importance of art and museums, and the treasures that lie within. Moderated by CMA Deputy Director Joelle Ryan-Cook. 

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Patrick Bringley is the author of All the Beauty in the World, a memoir about his decade working as a guard in the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book has been praised by outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, and Associated Press, and has been named a best book of the year by the New York Public Library, NPR, the Financial Times, Audible, and the Sunday Times (London), which selected it as the outstanding art book of 2023; it also received the Marfield Prize and was a finalist for the Gotham Book Prize. Bringley will perform All the Beauty in the World as a one-man play at the Charleston Literary Festival this November, directed by Dominic Dromgoole, formerly the artistic director of the Globe Theatre in London. He leads public and private tours of the Met and lectures at museums and other venues around the country. Past and upcoming appearances include at the Met, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Saint Louis Art Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Chrysler Museum, University of Virginia, and Emirates Airlines Festival of Literature in Dubai. All the Beauty in the World is being published in translated editions around the world and is a national bestseller in South Korea. Bringley lives with his wife and children in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.