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Patrick Bringley is the New York Times bestselling author of ALL THE BEAUTY IN THE WORLD, a memoir about his ten years working as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He’s adapted the book into a one-man play, which he will perform Off-Broadway from March 27th through May 18th, 2025. His memoir was named one of the best books of the year by New York Public Library, NPR, the Financial Times, Audible, and the Sunday Times (London), among others. He lectures at museums around the country and leads public and private tours at the Met (complete information at patrickbringley.com). He lives with his wife and children in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. ALL THE BEAUTY IN THE WORLD is his first book.

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“Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious. This is real. That's all it says. Take the time to stop and imagine or feel fully the things you already know.”
― Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

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“A work of art tends to speak of things that are at once too large and too intimate to be summed up, and they speak of them by not speaking at all.”
― Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

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“So under the cover of no one hearing your thoughts, think brave thoughts, searching thoughts, painful thoughts, and maybe foolish thoughts, not to arrive at right answers but to better understand the human mind and heart as you put both to use.”
― Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

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The Storm We Made

by Vanessa Chan

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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The One

by John Marrs

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by Robert Dugoni

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All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

by Patrick Bringley

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“There never was another part of Paris that he loved like that,”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

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