An Evening with Jessica Goldman Srebnick - Books & Books

About the Event:

Books & Books is proud to present an evening with Jessica Goldman Srebnick discussing Street Art Icons: The Story of Wynwood Walls (Assouline).

This event is FREE and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase the evening of the event! Please RSVP only if you intend to join us.

About the Book:

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 for international street art.…