Sounds very much like ” they also serve who simply stand and watch”. Intriguing and thought provoking.
This is book number 6 of my 20 books of summer, and it is a really wonderful book, published this year. It is part memoir and part guide to art appreciation, written by Patrick Bringley, who spent a decade working as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Bringley had been a successful student, and was on his way to launching the glittering New York journalistic career that seemed his for the taking when his brother became seriously ill with cancer, dying tragically young. Broken after his brother’s early death, Bringley sought a refuge, and space to reflect or just to switch off his thoughts, and he found just that inside the timeless rooms of the Met.
But the book is not primarily a grief memoir. It is interesting in so many ways: Bringley is a warm and erudite guide to the art works themselves, and…
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