Street Art Icons: The Story of Wynwood Walls

As a creative genre rooted in subversion and vandalism, in graffiti iconoclasts like Basquiat and Haring, and in political protests and revolutions, it would take a visionary to have the foresight to monumentalize the street art movement into a museum. Enter property developer Tony Goldman, who established Wynwood Walls in 2009, transforming a once run-down expanse of warehouse buildings in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood into what is now recognized not only as one of America’s most successful urban renewal narratives, but also the world’s first meaningful—and undisputably still most significant—exhibition center

Kompatibel med:

• international street art
• In Street Art Icons: The Story of Wynwood Walls
• readers will discover not just a book documenting fifteen years of this seminal institution
• but a book on the art form itself
• a comprehensive tribute to the discipline essential