Tony Goldman, the real estate mogul, restauranteur, and entrepreneur largely responsible for the contemporary art- and mural-driven redevelopment of Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood, the art deco architecture-revitalizing resurrection of South Beach, and the man in charge of New York City’s most prominent mural space, died of heart failure yesterday in New York, the Miami New Times reports. He was 68.
Goldman and then-dealer Jeffrey Deitch masterminded the Wynwood Walls street art project that since 2009 has coincided every year with Art Basel Miami Beach, often putting up participating artists — who’ve includedKenny Scharf and Shepard Fairey — in one of his South Beach hotels.
Source: www.blogs.artinfo.com
