Miami: Murals, Mangos, Martin And Muhammad

No, Miami doesn’t have something for everyone. There are no mountains. If you like cold weather, pass. Solitude? Less and less, unless you can get offshore. Short of that, from nightlife to culture, dining, history, outdoor recreation, beaches, shopping, sports–if you look close enough, you’ll be able to find your Miami. Murals Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood was once one of the most dangerous places in America. For that matter, so was the entire city during the early 1980s “cocaine cowboys” era when seeing cars riddled with bullet holes while driving around was a thing that happened. Wynwood began as a working class neighborhood in the nineteen-teens evolving throughout the 20th century into Miami’s Garment District, a haven for Puerto Rican immigrants, a haven for pan-Latin immigration, it became industrial, was filled with warehouses, and then drug infested before being transformed by an arts community. In 1987, a former bakery in Wynwood was converted into Florida’s largest working artist space. In 1993, Don and Mera Rubell purchased a 40,000-square-foot building previously owned by the Drug Enforcement Agency to house and display their growing collection of contemporary art. A few brave galleries followed. When Art Basel arrived on Miami Beach in 2002–the world’s...