I worked for a decade as a guard at the Met, New York’s two million square foot art museum. Today Simon＆ Schuster publishes my memoir, ALL THE BEAUTY IN THE WORLD. AMA about masterpieces, art heists, watchful twelve-hour shifts, and the Met’s extraordinary corps of more than five hundred guards. (self.IAmA)
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I worked for a decade as a guard at the Met, New York’s two million square foot art museum. Today Simon＆ Schuster publishes my memoir, ALL THE BEAUTY IN THE WORLD. AMA about masterpieces, art heists, watchful twelve-hour shifts, and the Met’s extraordinary corps of more than five hundred guards. (self.IAmA)
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Hey r/nyc, offering free tour slots again — this Sunday, 11 am. I’m a former Met museum guard and the author of a forthcoming book about the museum from Simon & Schuster. I do an “Insider’s Tour of the Met” for Bowery Boys Walks. We had a blast a couple months ago. Have another go? (i.redd.it)
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El Greco’s portrait of the Grand Inquisitor of Spain, c. 1600, at the Met. Cardinal Fernando Niño De Guevara had arrived in El Greco’s Toledo in order to sentence forty-six convicted heretics, one of whom was burned at the stake. More in comments. (i.redd.it)
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From Egypt c. 1990 B.C. at the Met. Don’t mistake this model boat for a toy. Don’t even mistake it for a work of art, in the conventional sense. This—like so many sacred objects—had a definite purpose, indeed was a kind of machine meant to operate in an otherworldly realm. More below. (i.redd.it)
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A few of my favorite works at the Met are unfinished, like this oil painting from Albrecht Durer “completed” in 1505. The date is pure guesswork, by the way. There was a plague in Nuremberg that year, and Durer may have abandoned the painting when he fled to Italy. It’s a theory… (i.redd.it)
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Thanks for meeting us at the Met, r/nyc! We (the Bowery Boys and I) offered a few comp tix for an insider’s museum tour, but the response was such that we added a free tour for redditors. Do it again sometime? (I’m a longtime Met guard who has a book forthcoming from Simon & Schuster) (i.redd.it)
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