“Unveiling Hidden Depths: How Patrick Bringley’s ‘All the Beauty in the World’ Transforms Everyday Life into Extraordinary Art”
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Bringley comes to The Met as an up-and-coming writer at the glamorous world at The New Yorker, he’s also carrying a deep wound, one requiring—yearning for—the balm of beauty. His older adored brother, Tom, has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
“In middle school, [Tom] was bussed to the local high school to take math. In high school, the community college. He understood math as fast as you could teach it and other subjects more adeptly than a math kid had any right […] he was cheerful, patient, helpful, modest, normal. He didn’t show off.”
