Christine Coulson: Metropolitan Stories
When:
Thursday, Nov 21, 2019 6:00p -
7:00p
Thursday, Nov 21, 2019 6:00p -
7:00p
Where:
Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02115
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Art, Lectures & Conferences, Meetup
Event website:
https://www.tridentbookscafe.com/event/trident-offsite-bpl-christine-coulson-metropolitan-stories
From a writer who worked at the Metropolitan Museum for more than twenty-five years, an enchanting novel that shows us the Met that the public doesn’t see.
Hidden behind the Picassos and Vermeers, the Temple of Dendur and the American Wing, exists another world: the hallways and offices, conservation studios, storerooms, and cafeteria that are home to the museum’s devoted and peculiar staff of 2,200 people–along with a few ghosts.
A surreal love letter to this private side of the Met, Metropolitan Stories unfolds in a series of amusing and poignant vignettes in which we discover larger-than-life characters, the downside of survival, and the powerful voices of the art itself. The result is a novel bursting with magic, humor, and energetic detail, but also a beautiful book about introspection, an ode to lives lived for art, ultimately building a powerful collage of human experience and the world of the imagination.
Christine Coulson began her career at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1991 as an intern in the European Paintings Department. In the 25 years since then, Coulson has risen through the ranks of The Met and has held several positions, including roles in the Development Office, the Director's Office and the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. In April 2019, she left the Met to write full-time.
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