DS Special Projects

A debut show from the curators at Deep Space

One of the town's best-loved independent galleries launches a spinoff Downtown

By collaborating with Deep Space, Silverman Building has done more than usher a team of outsiders inside. They’ve also furthered an unmistakable trend: the re-centering of creative life in the Historic Downtown.

This year, it isn’t even clear that there will be a citywide Studio Tour. Action is collapsing back on the Downtown neighborhoods and Downtown streets — the very places in this town that, we were told, were too exclusive, too conservative, and too unrepresentative to be home to the sort of artistic ferment that a thriving scene depends upon.