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“Well, I’m a sort of consultant-slash-troubleshooter. And a couple of jobs a year is all I get, so it’s not that far from being completely retired.” === By the time he’d walked in and out of three galleries he was entirely at ease. It was like going to a museum, he realized. It was exactly like going to a museum, except for two things. You didn’t have to pay to get in, and there were no groups of restless children, with their teachers desperate to explain things to them. === His notes remained as steadfastly perfunctory as hers. She sent him stamps, he sent her checks. Why mess with something that worked? === In recent years, artists seeking low-cost loft space had been moving in. (“There goes the neighborhood” went the cry — in Spanish and Yiddish, Polish and Italian.)