*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR*A revelatory insider portrait of one of the world's greatest galleries, and the inspiring story of one guard's quest to find solace and meaning in art.'Who would have thought that the outstanding art book of the year would have been written not by a curator or an art historian or even an artist - but by a museum guard?' Sunday Times

New York Times bestsellerNamed one of the best books of the year by the New York Public Library, the Financial Times, the New York Post, Book Riot, and The Sunday Times (London).An “exquisite” (The Washington Post) “hauntingly beautiful” (Associated Press) portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum gu...

Brought to you by Penguin.Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase into New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny.They're the guards in dark blue suits, keeping careful watch over this vast treasure house. Caught up in the early days of a glamorous journalism career, Patrick Bringley never thought he'd be one of them. Then his brother was diagnosed wi...