Happening at the Bass
- laurie2769
- Aug 5
- 8 min read
Summer's coming in hot, make the most of it by becoming a member at The Bass Museum of Art!
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THIRD THURSDAYS: LATE NIGHTS LIVE
Fireside Chat With Weg (White Elephant Group)
THU AUG 21 | 6–9 PM
6 PM Doors Open
6:30 PM Talk Starts (1 hour)
SAVE THE DATE for Third Thursdays: :Late Nights Live #atTheBasson August 21st as WEG (White Elephant Group Films) and their guest panel expand upon the anchors of The Bass' Performing Perspectives: A Collection in Dialogue exhibition through the lens and art of filmmaking with the topic 'Backdrop For Performance.'
Artificiality and Stagecraft: An in-depth conversation and exploration with the artisans responsible for molding the cinematic world that transports. Production designers, set dressers, cinematographers, and VFX artists discuss creating cinematic environments from scratch.
WEG is a South Florida-based collective of emerging artists creating films and community, White Elephant Group (WEG) is a team of 20+ award-winning film and digital media artists working across various artistic avenues including cinema, XR, mixed-multimedia and more to artistically address and elaborate upon the voices and experiences we’ve had coming from minority and underserved communities in South Florida. Learn more at: www.wegfilms.com.
Third Thursday is presented by Art Bridges Access for All. Additional support from O, Cinema.
Film still courtesy of WEG and The Bass, Miami Beach.
THIRD THURSDAYS: PUNK NITE
THU AUG 21 | 6–9 PM
6 PM Doors Open
6:15–7:15 PM Drinks, music, photos, & temporary tattoos
7:20 PM Introduction by Associate Curator of New Media
7:30 PM Timed screening (85 minutes)
8:55 PM Awards for Most Punk Best Dressed
This August, join us at The Bass for a FREE night of anti-establishment film, fashion, and music for Third Thursdays: Punk Nite, featuring Charles Atlas: Hail the New Puritan.
Enjoy complimentary cocktails, photo ops, a timed screening of Hail the New Puritan, and prizes for Best Dressed punk attire.
Hail the New Puritan (1985–86) by Charles Atlas is a mockumentary of a day in the life of Scottish choreographer and dancer Michael Clark. The underground subcultures explored in the film—from club scenes to experimental performance—resonate with the personal expression and social defiance of 1980s punk.Fusing classical ballet with the raw vitality of punk, post-punk, and queer subcultures, Hail the New Puritan broke new ground by exploring the politics of style and capturing the spirit of the rebellious cultural shift taking place in mid-1980s London.
This event is 21+. FREE with RSVP. Limited seating, first-come first served. Link below.
Learn more about Charles Atlas: Hail the New Puritan, now on view at The Bass, HERE.
ART AFTER HOURS: DIY ZINE NIGHT
THU AUG 21 | 6:30–8 PM
Join us at The Bass for a hands-on night of DIY art-making inspired by Charles Atlas: Hail the New Puritan, where punk energy meets performative expression. BCC teaching artist Stephanie Silver will lead this FREE group activity.
For one night only, we’re transforming Social Assembly into a collaborative zine lab. Tap into the rebellious spirit of 1980s London as you cut, paste, and create your own mini-mag inspired by the anti-establishment pulse of punk, post-punk, and underground subcultures.
Fueled by the raw vitality of Atlas’s film and the self-published legacy of punk zines, this workshop invites you to take up the tools of radical self-expression. Whether you’re channeling choreographed chaos, personal politics, or performance-as-protest, your voice belongs on the page.
We’ll supply all the materials—just bring your ideas and your friends!
FREE with RSVP. Ages 21+. All skill levels welcome.
THE BASS ART PASS
NOW AVAILABLE
Start off the Summer planning ahead #atTheBass. Join The Bass at the Insider ($500) level and above to receive an exclusive curated ‘ARTinerary’, including passes to local art fairs and exclusive events throughout Miami Art Week with The Bass Art Pass!
With the Bass Art Pass, members can visit participating art fairs, access the museum’s highly anticipated Opening Night Reception… PLUS, take advantage of exciting art experiences all year round with your annual membership.
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Photography by World Red Eye. Courtesy of The Bass, Miami Beach.
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Bloomberg Connects is a free arts and cultural app created by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The Bloomberg Connects app makes The Bass accessible for either onsite or offsite visits through photo, audio, and video features offering insights into current exhibitions and way-finding around the museum.
This application offers free digital guides to cultural organizations around the world. The app platform is part of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ longstanding commitment to supporting digital innovation in the arts.
Download Bloomberg Connects today from Google Play, the App Store or by visiting The Bass website.
What's on View
FAIRE FOYER: SARAH CROWNER IN DIALOGUE WITH ETEL ADNAN
ON VIEW AUGUST 20
The Bass is greeting August with a brand-new season of art exhibitions! We are pleased to announce Faire Foyer: Sarah Crowner in Dialogue with Etel Adnan on view August 20, 2025 through July 26, 2026.
The exhibition brings together new work by the artist Sarah Crowner and a monumental ceramic mural by Etel Adnan, the only example of its kind in the United States.
Crowner, whose practice engages geometric abstraction across painting, sculpture, and design, creates a semicircular carpeted alcove- or in French faire foyer- a welcoming transitional space connecting the exterior to the home's interior-that frames Adnan's mural.
Sarah Crowner is an American artist whose work with geometric abstraction blurs the boundaries between painting, sculpture, set design, and ceramics. Exploring the formal language of abstraction with simplicity and intuition, her ongoing experiments in site-responsive installations revisit and reimagine the legacies of modernist art and architecture.
Organized by James Voorhies, The Bass Curator at Large.
This exhibition is made possible with generous support from the Arison Arts Foundation and PHILLIPS.
Sarah Crowner, 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙚 1 (𝙎𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙡), 2024.© Sarah Crowner. Courtesy of the artist, Luring Augustine, New York, and Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Mexico City, and Stockholm.
CHARLES ATLAS: HAIL THE NEW PURITANNOW ON VIEW
We are pleased to announce our latest exhibition Charles Atlas: Hail the New Puritan, on view now through October 19, 2025. Hail the New Puritan (1985–86) by Charles Atlas is a landmark in the history of media-based performance, offering a fictionalized documentary of a day in the life of Scottish choreographer and dancer Michael Clark.
Fusing the formal discipline of classical ballet with the raw vitality of punk, post-punk, and queer underground subcultures, Clark’s performances—and Atlas’s mock-documentary approach—broke new ground with their exploration of self-fashioned personas and the politics of style. Set against the backdrop of 1980s London, the film captures the spirit of a shifting cultural moment, where physical movement operates as both personal expression and social defiance.
Atlas’s camera acts as an extension of the performing body, crafting a visual language attuned to the energies, textures, and codes of a changing society. Nearly four decades later, Hail the New Puritan remains a vital cultural touchstone, its experimental pulse resonating across time. At The Bass, its presentation deepens a conversation already embedded within XI (2004), the immersive installation by assume vivid astro focus (avaf) currently on view on the museum’s second floor.
At the center of this constellation, Atlas’s film stands not only as a defining work of its time but as an influential force that continues to inform how artists visualize movement, stage identity, and imagine the political possibilities of performance. Look for special events and more throughout the season as The Bass continues its proud tradition of sharing powerful international contemporary art that excites, challenges, and educates audiences, bringing new perspectives to Miami Beach’s diverse cultural context.
Charles Atlas: Hail the New Puritan is curated by Claudia Mattos, Associate Curator of New Media Art.
This exhibition is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation New Media Initiative.
Hail the New Puritan, film still ©Charles Atlas. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York.
ASSUME VIVID ASTRO FOCUS: XI
NOW ON VIEW
The Bass is pleased to present the exhibition assume vivid astro focus: XI, an enveloping installation spanning floor to ceiling that features densely patterned wallpaper, multicolored seating, a modular stage, digital decals, sculptures that shapeshift into performative stage elements, and a large-scale projection covering an entire wall.
Now on view, the exhibition is a collaborative work, bringing together individual pieces by assume vivid astro focus (avaf) as well as an array of collaborations and contributions by General Idea, Honeygun Labs, Natalja Kent, Michael Lazarus, Los Super Elegantes, Carla Machado, Justin Samson, Marco Boggio Sella, and Pete Woods.
The São Paulo–based multidisciplinary art collective fuses drawing, sculpture, video and performance into large-scale installations and happenings where gender, politics and cultural codes freely interact. Inhabiting the social forms of discos and dance parties, avaf invites museum visitors to engage with the exhibition environment, creating lived experiences that contribute to the continually evolving social dynamics inherent in their work.
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This exhibition is organized by Claudia Mattos, Associate Curator of New Media Art.
Installation view of assume vivid astro focus XI. Photography by Zaire Aranguren. Courtesy of The Bass, Miami Beach and The de la Cruz collection.
RACHEL FEINSTEIN: THE MIAMI YEARS
NOW ON VIEW THROUGH AUGUST 17
The Miami Years is a focused exhibition examining the underlying impact of Miami’s contradictory marks of sophistication and decadence, exuberance and decay on Rachel Feinstein’s rich and sweeping practice centered on the commission of a panorama mirrored wall.
While early influences include figures like Carolee Schneemann and Kiki Smith, there is another less-considered though powerful undercurrent in Feinstein’s work: Miami. The artist grew up in “The Magic City” during the 1980s.
Miami, then and now, is defined by the collision of extremes. From lush landscapes of extraordinary natural beauty juxtaposed with industrial wasteland, to glittering façades adjacent to crumbling urban neglect, to clashing architectural styles found in any single block, South Florida is enmeshed in escapist fantasy while simultaneously embroiled in the conflicted realities of contemporary life, politics and the environment.
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This exhibition is curated by The Bass Curator at Large James Voorhies and Claudia Mattos Associate Curator of New Media Art.
This exhibition is presented with support by Gagosian, Givenchy and PHILLIPS. Additional support is provided by Arison Arts Foundation, Dry Farm Wines, Funding Arts Network, The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach and Zaytinya.
Installation view of Rachel Feinstein: The Miami Years, 2024. Photography by Zaire Aranguren. Courtesy of The Bass, Miami Beach.
In the Creativity Center
SUMMER ART CAMPS
THE CREATIVITY CENTER
JUNE 9–AUG 8 | AGES 5–12
9 AM–3:30 PM
AFTERCARE IS AVAIL UNTIL 5:45 PM
Get ready for art-ful summer fun! Campers will tap into their creativity to create unique, one-of-a-kind projects guided by teaching artists, enjoying hands-on activities in sculpture, painting, design, and other art forms.
You may drop your child off as early as 8:30am with no additional charge. Late pick up until 5:45 pm is available for an additional charge of $20 per day.
Each week features a new theme and a new adventure! Sign up for one week of learning and artmaking or the whole summer!
Register your child today!