Detroit Experiences

Mid-century Motor City images from Robert Frank's iconic American road trip

Almost a decade after emigrating to the United States in the ’40s, Swiss photographer Robert Frank decided to document the reality of his adopted country’s then-current condition—a nation as he saw it obsessed with money and struggling with the divisions among race and class. Of the 12 cities he visited in 1955, the particularly moving images of Detroit make up the current exhibit at the …

For the Birds

Jeff Canham and Luke Bartels' cheeky mini cityscape for feathered friends

Painter Jeff Canham and woodworker Luke Bartels stumbled upon the idea to make birdhouses while sharing a studio space together in San Francisco. Now on view at local boutique The Curiosity Shoppe, their show “For the Birds” shows the mix of complimentary skills born of this friendship, a collection of birdhouses cleverly trimmed to mimic “seedy” urban counterparts. Well-known for signage and design work for …

Faena Nueva

Potter Adam Silverman's interpretations of Spanish bullfights

Inspired by the spectacle of matadors and bulls, potter Adam Silverman’s new works merge “beauty with ugliness, elegance and violence.” The artist, also the L.A. director of Heath ceramics, will display his gorgeously tortuous works in the upcoming show “Faena Nueva” at Heath’s L.A. studio. Drawing on childhood memories of bullfights that his uncle took him to in Spain, Silverman combines the vivid hues of …