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Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They’re the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits, keeping a watchful eye on the two million square foot treasure house. Caught up in his glamourous fledgling career at The New Yorker, Patrick Bringley never thought that he’d be one of them.

The Louvre is the most famous museum in the world, attracting millions of visitors every year with its masterpieces. In Adventures in the Louvre, Elaine Sciolino immerses herself in this magical space and helps us fall in love with what was once a forbidding fortress. Exploring galleries, basements, rooftops, and gardens, Sciolino demystifies the Louvre, introducing us to her favorite artworks, both legendary and overlooked, and to the people who are the museum's lifeblood.

The Art of Relevance is your guide to mattering more to more people. You'll find inspiring examples, rags-to-relevance case studies, research-based frameworks, and practical advice on how your work can be more vital to your community. Whether you work in museums or libraries, parks or theaters, churches or afterschool programs, relevance can work for you. Break through shallow connection. Unlock meaning for yourself and others. Find true relevance and shine.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The History and Legacy of America’s Largest Art Museum chronicles the remarkable history of the museum and highlights some of its most important pieces. You will learn about the Met like never before.

The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world's greatest art museum.

How to deal with the colonial history of art in museums and monuments in the public realm is a thorny issue that we are only just beginning to address. Alice Procter provides a guide for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art history and tells the stories that have been left out of the canon. A much-needed provocation to look more critically at the accepted narratives about art and rethink and disrupt the way we interact with the museums and galleries that display it.

Beautiful detective Micah Sampson has a highly successful career and an equally unsuccessful love life. Reeling from her latest romantic betrayal, Micah begins investigating a puzzling murder at a quirky Boston antique shop. She soon discovers that the motive may be a mysterious second-rate painting, one which casts new light on the biggest art heist in U.S. history – the unsolved 1990 theft of 13 priceless masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. As she investigates, Micah meets two enigmatic men who will forever change her life. Despite the fact that the two executives ...

Where can you find Ancient Greek and Roman artefacts sitting with twentieth century French impressionist masterpieces? Where can shining suits of armour be compared with traditional Korean dresses? One of the world’s largest and most encyclopaedic collections of art lies in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Affectionately known as The ‘Met’, it is the largest art museum in the Western Hemisphere, housing over 2 million artefacts.

A ghost story with a true crime twist. Based on the largest, unsolved art heist in history, GHOST AT THE GARDNER is a gripping, paranormal suspense mystery with a bit of added romance. Supernatural occurrences unfold as an old museum ghost and a young art intern team up to solve an investigation that has remained an FBI cold case for over 20 years. Readers won’t be able to put down this fast-paced novel full of ghostly spirits, mystical séances and first kisses in a spooky graveyard.

The study guide has many excellent essays and examples on • Invention and Outline Examples • Analysis of Persuasion in Advertising Example • Field-Based Solutions, arguments and conclusions based on interviews and observations • APA Research Paper • An Argumentative Paper Taking a Position on an Issue (Chicago Manual (CM) Research Paper) • An essay to nominate a film. Why should your chosen film be the one shown? • Critical Book Review • Museum Art Review

A dead body is found in an Egyptian sarcophagus. No surprises there, except this corpse is not two thousand years old and it’s not wearing bandages; it does have an Egyptian sword sticking out of its body, though. When Bobbie Flynn goes to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art one Sunday accompanied by her father, Inspector Flynn and a precocious eleven year old child called Violet, she doesn’t expect to become embroiled in a murder case, an art theft and a kidnapping... …her own kidnapping. The Bobbie Flynn Mysteries are by turns a thrilling, twisty, romantic cocktail set in 1920’s ...

In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Monuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture.

Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal. She’s in a reflective mood, thinking back on her thrilling, tragic, nearly impossible journey from her sheltered, old-fashioned family in New York to here: iconoclast and independent woman. Rebecca Godfrey’s Peggy is a blazingly fresh interpretation of a woman who defies every expectation to become an original. The daughter of two Jewish dynasties, Peggy finds her cloistered life turned upside down at fourteen, when her beloved father perishes on the Titanic.

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 with fatal cancer and he needed to escape the mundane clamour of daily life. So he quit, and sought solace in the most beautiful place he knew.

To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family's remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than 20 years, she was host to and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth and became the subject of one of the best known American paintings of the 20th century.

For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than 200 heists over nearly ten years - in museums and cathedrals all over Europe - Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than 300 objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser’s strange and fascinating world.

Discover trails, sights, and wildlife at Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. A group of Road Scholars with their outdoor enthusiast guides spend a week hiking and finding out why these two parks are worth visiting. New things to explore from the town of Jackson, Upper Geyser Basin, to Rendezvous Mountain and National Museum of Wildlife Art.

When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather's painting, she discovers what seems to be an old Renaissance masterpiece underneath. That's great news for Theo, who's struggling to hang on to her family's 200-year-old townhouse and support her unstable mother on her grandfather's legacy of $463. There's just one problem: Theo's grandfather was a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she worries the painting may be stolen.

Embark on an enchanting journey through the life of one of the most influential and captivating figures in modern art in "Claude Monet: The Master of Impressionism." This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Monet's life, from his early days to the monumental legacy that continues to inspire artists and art lovers worldwide. Claude Monet stands as one of the most influential artists in history due to his pioneering role in the Impressionist movement, which revolutionized the art world. His innovative use of light and color challenged traditional artistic conventions and opened new ...

When Claire Bennett, curator at the Willow Creek Museum, discovers inconsistencies in a prized painting donated by wealthy collector Edward Langston, she's drawn into a dangerous world of art forgery and high-stakes secrets. Teaming up with the enigmatic art restorer Liam Hart, Claire must navigate a treacherous landscape of lies, power, and corruption to expose the truth. As they dig deeper, Claire and Liam uncover a vast conspiracy reaching far beyond a single forged masterpiece. With a mysterious symbol connecting multiple fraudulent works and a cunning gallery owner named Margot Vance ...