Of Value: 2024 National Conference
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Thursday, November 7, 2024
New York Athletic Club, New York
In-Person and Virtual
Wednesday Keynote Speaker: Patrick Bringley, Author, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me |
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Patrick Bringley is the author of All the Beauty in the World, a memoir about his decade working as a guard at Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book has been praised by outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, and Associated Press, and has been named a best book of the year by the New York Public Library, NPR, the Financial Times, Audible, and the Sunday Times (London), which selected it as the outstanding art book of 2023. It won the 2023 Marfield Prize for outstanding writing about the arts and was a finalist for the Gotham Prize. Patrick leads public and private tours of the Met and lectures at museums and other venues around the country. He is also adapting his book into a one man play that will premier at the Charleston Literary Festival in November of 2024. Patrick lives with his wife and children in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. All the Beauty in the World is his first book. |
Thursday Keynote Speaker: Julia Halperin, Freelance Journalist |
 Julia Halperin is an arts and culture journalist, editor, and co-founder of the Burns Halperin Report, the largest report of its kind tracking equity and representation in the art world. She is a contributor to the New York Times, W magazine, and the Financial Times, among other publications. She also serves as editor at large of CULTURED magazine and a contributing editor to The Art Newspaper, where she writes a monthly column about changes and challenges in American art museums. From 2017 to 2022, she was executive editor of Artnet News. |
About the Conference
This year's conference will present experts from across the country to address various important topics to an audience of 325 of art world participants. Our conference brings together professionals from across the art world spectrum, including appraisers of the fine and decorative arts, art dealers, advisors, consultants, attorneys, archivists, gallerists and many others!