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Goldman Global
Arts Tackles Hard
Rock Stadium
For World’s Largest
Indoor Art Show
By Sandra Schulman
WPB Magazine Senior Writer | Arts & Entertainment
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outh Florida has been taking
art into the big leagues for
years now with big art fairs
(Art Basel Miami, Art Palm Beach),
museums (Perez Art Museum, the
Norton Museum) and galleries (The
Box Gallery). Wynwood, a former
warehouse neighborhood in Miami
exploded the size barrier by taking
murals to the street covering entire
blocks with wildly colorful work. That
visionary project was completed
by the late Tony Goldman who also
helped build the neighborhoods of
Soho in NYC and revive the Art Deco
District in Miami’s South Beach.
Now Goldman’s daughter Jessica
Goldman Srebnick has tackled a big
stage - the new Hard Rock Stadium
where she unveiled the World’s
Largest Indoor Street Art Gallery,
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produced by Goldman and her new
Goldman Global Arts organization
(GGA). cans of spray paint and there are also
30 pieces of fine art hanging through-
out private clubs in the stadium.
Goldman Global Arts unveiled its
first mega project with the Miami
Dolphins at the first home game of
the season, September 25th, in the
newly reconstructed Hard Rock Sta-
dium in North Miami. Transforming
the enormous concrete facility into
a vibrant, monumental public art
experience, the landmark project
looks to create an artistic legacy and
cement Hard Rock Stadium as an
iconic, world class, cultural venue of
Miami. Journalists were given a last
minute, hush hush private tour of the
stadiums murals before it opened
for the season. Jessica Goldman
Srebnick hosted the tour with a
gaggle of bearded male artists and
brightly dressed female artists.
How large is it? We’re talking 29,000
square feet of murals – 19 in all for
the debut by 18 artists from 10 coun-
tries. They used more than 3,000
30
It was the Wynwood Walls that
served as inspiration for the project.
After a visit to the street art mecca,
Dolphins Owner Stephen Ross, was
struck by the scale and ambition of
the artwork and knew he wanted to
incorporate this energetic and
engaging medium into the stadium.
Ross, a long-time supporter of the
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