New York’s Sidewalks Are His Studio

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It is the second day of fall, and the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art are alive with the layered rhythms of New York. A performance artist slathered in white paint moves slowly across the plaza as a saxophonist bends a bluesy note nearby. Anti-Trump protesters chant along Fifth Avenue. Painters hawk canvases from folding tables, tourists pose for pictures, and fashionistas stage their own impromptu photoshoots on the museum’s iconic steps. Into this scene steps Louis Mendes, eighty-five

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