City Sculpture Park

Detroit


Local artist Robert Sestok bought a forlorn lot by the freeway where cars whizz by, and plunked down his hulking abstract sculptures welded from scrap metal. The do-it-yourself public space makes for a quick but impressive walkabout.


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