Full colour: celebrating 15 years of street art in Miami’s Wynwood

To many people in the art world, the name Wynwood—a district of low-lying warehouses just north of downtown Miami—has become synonymous with street art. But the neighbourhood has not always been a pilgrimage site for graffiti writers, muralists and street art fans. In 2009 the late real estate developer Tony Goldman created Wynwood Walls to help formalise the area’s thriving graffiti scene. Gradually, then with increasing momentum, the neighbourhood experienced an influx of new development, restaurants and nightlife destinations, but street art has remained fundamental throughout Wynwood’s transformation. Artist Defer, whose work features ornate letterforms Nika Kramer “The art comes first, then you plan the architecture around that to make sure you have large-scale spaces to incorporate art into the building projects,” says Jessica Goldman Srebnick, Tony Goldman’s daughter, the curator of Wynwood Walls and the founder and chief executive of Goldman Global Arts. “There might not be as many murals on the ground floor as there were in the past, because the new buildings are more vertical and you’re starting to have windows into the spaces that didn’t have windows before, but the murals are becoming bigger and taller.” David Choe, who is a graphic novelist as well as...