Wynwood Walls Opens Its Doors to Miamians at No Charge, With a Video Game Publisher Picking Up the Tab

Anyone who calls Miami home can now walk into Wynwood Walls, the city's museum of murals, without buying a ticket. The cost of that open door is being covered by Rockstar Games, the publisher behind Grand Theft Auto, which is marking the release of the series' sixth installment with the gesture. For a neighborhood whose painted facades have long drawn visitors from well beyond Florida, the change means the people who live alongside those walls can see them as often as they like. It is the kind of arrangement collectors here tend to admire, a commercial name underwriting public access to work rather than keeping it behind a price. Whoever has put off a visit now has one less reason to wait.

With reporting from ARTnews.