The Guard's Hour

A museum guard spends the hour before opening alone with five centuries of faces, nodding to favorites down the parquet. His footsteps are the whole soundtrack, and the paintings prefer it

OPEN THE RECORDON THE ATLASHANG IT IN THE MUSEUMGET COUNTED

Part of NEW YORKERS by MLow, a painted census of New York City: 7,541 characters across 19 eras. Read the history of the places or spin into a room of the museum.